Passage, from the series "Transition" (2009-11)

In the series Transition, Ilit Azoulay underscored the improvised, eclectic nature of architectural structures in Israeli cities, which suggest to her “a community in a turbulent state of mind.” She first collected objects and building fragments from construction sites in Tel Aviv’s southern neighborhoods, then undergoing massive gentri-fication after decades of neglect. She arranged the objects, found images, and other household items as tabletop dioramas and photographed the results. The found image in Passage shows an empty beach—“all that is left of a vanishing community,” according to Azoulay—and reminds us that “every act of remembrance reflects back on the act of forgetting.”