This article presents an interpretation of the works by the Israeli–Druze photographer Amira Ziyan, focusing on a series of photographs from 2017. These portray reenactments of actions identified with traditional roles of women in Druze society, such as cooking and cleaning. Employing a unique visual language and choice of form and content, the artist depicts a confrontation between a clear set of rigid and traditional boundaries and values and a contemporary, post-modern reality in which these boundaries and values are blurred. The interpretive reading proposed here describes a synergy between visual codes of minorities and accepted visual codes of their surrounding pervasive culture in contemporary Israel. Ziyan’s work offers a glimpse into visual codes of “otherness” that express the inner world of an artist who grew up on the margins of society but strove to be accepted as an essential part of its main artistic current. Focusing on this perspective contributes to ongoing discourse regarding contradictions inherent in Israeli society and identity.

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Amira Ziyan，隐藏在光中：对比的协同作用作为“他者”的视觉代码

本文介绍了对以色列德鲁兹摄影师 Amira Ziyan 作品的解读，重点关注 2017 年的一系列照片。这些照片描绘了在德鲁兹社会中被认定为女性传统角色的行为的重演，例如烹饪和清洁。艺术家采用独特的视觉语言以及形式和内容的选择，描绘了一套清晰的僵化和传统界限和价值观与这些界限和价值观模糊的当代后现代现实之间的对抗。这里提出的解释性阅读描述了少数民族的视觉代码与当代以色列周围普遍文化的公认视觉代码之间的协同作用。紫妍的作品让我们得以一窥“他者”的视觉代码，这些代码表达了艺术家的内心世界，他在社会边缘长大，但努力被接受为主要艺术潮流的重要组成部分。关注这一观点有助于持续讨论以色列社会和身份固有的矛盾。