Dor Guez
Director and Co-Founder
Dor Guez Munayer is a Jaffa-based artist and an educator. He was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda on his mother's side and a family of Jewish immigrants from North Africa on his father's. Guez's practice includes photography, video, installations, sculpture, and lecture- performances.
Guez explores the relationship between art, narrative, memory, and displacement through his work. Interrogating personal experiences and official accounts of the past, Guez raises questions about contemporary art's role in narrating unwritten histories and re-contextualizing visual and written documents.
In the past 20 years, his studies and artistic work have focused on archival materials and photographic practices of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as mapping traces of violence in the landscape. Guez’s latest overview, Catastrophe, at the Museum of Modern Art Bogota, spans a wide range of works showcasing the artist's committed engagement with his community and the ever-unfolding studies of his region.
Since 2006, Guez's studio has initiated several community and educational ongoing initiatives, including the CPA (Christian-Palestinian Archive), which originated with Guez’s family albums from the Palestinian diaspora in the cities of Lydda, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Gaza, Ramallah, Amman, and more. Guez is also the Director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency Program. In 2023, Guez's studio inaugurated the “Samira Munayer Scholarship Program” with the primary objective of advocating and supporting higher education for female Palestinian art students.
Yael Messer
Co-Founder
Yael Messer is the Director and Curator of Beit Hagefen’s gallery, Arab Jewish Cultural Center, Haifa. Previously she was the artistic director of the 48 mm International Film Festival in Tel-Aviv and a fellow curator at the Institute for Public Presence at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. Messer holds a postgraduate diploma in curating from Goldsmith College, London, and participated in the De Appel Curatorial Program, Amsterdam. She has been collaborating with museums, institutions, and independent art spaces internationally, including Depo, Istanbul; CCA Tel-Aviv; Stedelijk MuseumAmsterdam; Van AbbeMuseum Eindhoven; Apexart New York; Matadero Art CenterMadrid; CCA Warsaw; Artport Tel-Aviv; and the 13th Istanbul Biennial.
Maria Miguel de Pina
Program Coordinator
For over two decades De Pina has been managing productions and public relations projects. Previous roles include: Head producer of RadioAshams (regional Arabic radio station) and spokeswomen of Haifa municipality for the Arab community. De Pina is a graduate of the Hebrew University and also works as a teacher of spoken Arabic.
Darnell Ross
Media Coordinator
Darnell Ross is a design consultant with a focus on industrial design and fashion. Having worked with fashion companies like Tommy Hilfiger in New York and the design museum in Holon, Darnell is currently pursuing his M.Des degree at Bezalel Academy of the Arts.