Ido Suliman's works range from dangerous and exciting to guilt evoking. Through a series of posters of fictive films, he challenges the well formulated collective memory of the Holocaust, disassembling and assembling the forbidden images scorched into our consciousness. Thus, the Stalag, Snuff and fetishist culture intertwines with the "Burekas" films, the stronghold of the Israeli other, churning the viewer's stomach. The passion towards the "dark side" of our memory is reexamined through the Pop culture. Viewing the works raises the question – will the most horrific image, repeated and copied over and over, become "Pop" as well?

In his characteristic language of design, Ido presents references to the Holocaust that might be interpreted as cheapening its memorial. However, they mainly express the frustration of those who rarely have anything to do with the Holocaust but have absorbed its entire baggage: third generation people that seek to examine their place in the memory's continuum and perhaps even succeed in unloading it.

1979 Born in Tel-Aviv
2003-2008 Animation, Illustration and Screenplay Writing studies with Honor, “Minshar” School of Arts, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions

2008 “Mix Art”, Rishon Le Zion Municipality Art Festival, Rishon le Zion
2009 “Maratoon 2009” Finals, The Holon CinEmatheque Animation Competition, Holon
2010 Video Art Project, “A5” Magazine Launching, Tel-Aviv
"Shem Zmani", Castiel Loft, Tel-Aviv

Prizes

2008 Best Feature Animation Award, “Asifa” festival – Israel's Animation Festival, Tel-Aviv