Danielle Alhassid

Danielle Alhassid is an Israeli-French artist based in Amsterdam. She is a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie 2020. Her works involves drawing, print making, animation and performance. She focuses on the intersection of memory, identity, immigration and the urban experience as her main subjects of investigation.

Alhassid’s work “Memories of a Stone”, consists of a series of animations, which treat the uncanny feeling that darker memories hide under the surface. The animations depict stones as a symbol of memory, which exhibit the feeling of remembering a whole history while never revealing it. Inspired by her childhood in Tel Aviv, Alhassid interrogates questions of memory and deals with the myth of the modern city, which often whitewashes its narrative from the traces of other histories, those of racism, colonialism and exploitation.