Lee Marom
Lee Marom is an Israeli designer and artist of Iraqi descent. Lee's work involves designing interactive public installations through an engineering informed practice. Her work is interdisciplinary and is fabricated through digital fabrication and craft.
"Displaced"
Displaced is an interactive art installation that invites the viewer to piece together an image that is obstructed by a facade inspired by Middle Eastern architecture. Displaced contemplates ancestral information that is no longer accessible to later generations within immigrant families. Our immigrant and refugee families are urged to assimilate into a new society in order to survive. Assimilation results in a loss of cultural heritage and roots, creating a disconnect between generations. Displaced depicts an illustration of Lee's grandmother who emigrated from Iraq, and invites the viewer to connect with forms of displacement through a topological landscape resembling a map. The image is obstructed by a steel facade, alluding to the struggle in accessing the information we desperately seek to understand our inherited trauma in order to heal.
