ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Snapshots From The Garden Of Eden, 2017 is Goldstein’s most recent work and was commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum Of San Francisco for the exhibit Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, Opened September 28, 2017. The series features 11 large-scale Black and White tableau images with representing characters and passages from Leaves From The Garden Of Eden.


According to Genesis, in the middle of the Garden of Eden stood a “tree of life” beside the “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” The reason for Adams and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden was the possibility that, after eating of the tree of knowledge, they would partake of the fruits of the tree of life and thus attain immortality.
“…I have only heard of such an apple. But surely it can be found in the Garden Of Eden. Two trees are said to grow in the center of the garden. The Tree Of Life is one of them, and the Tree of Knowledge is the other. It is said that whoever tastes an apple from the Tree of Life, no matter how ill he may be, will recover his health.”

AUTHOR
Dina Goldstein is a Canadian photographer working with large-scale tableau, exploring elements of the human condition, through the lens of Pop Surrealism. Dina’s career began as a photojournalist and editorial and photographer. She describes her early work as photoanthropology, where she documented and exhibited portraits of Palestinians, Gamblers, Teenagers, Weightlifters, Wrestlers and various other subcultures. Dina was inspired by personal events when she created the highly conceptual ‘Fallen Princesses’ series 2007-2009. The series questions the “happily ever after” motif created by Disney and Western society. The project was a huge online success and continuously goes viral. She continued with a tradition of fine detailed productions with her second major body of work ‘In the Dollhouse’, 2012, a 10 part sequential narrative that takes place within a very pink adult sized Dollhouse belonging to Barbie and Ken. Dina has won numerous awards such as the Arte Laguna Grand Prize, which invited her to attend a residency in India. That experience inspired ‘Gods Of Suburbia’, 2014, a most complex photographic initiative. The work is a visual analysis of religious faith within the context of the modern forces of technology, science and secularism. Dina released Modern Girl, 2016, a series inspired by Chinese advertising posters of the 1930’s. Modern Girl examines identity, gender roles, diasporic cultures, and consumerism. Snapshots From The Garden Of Eden, 2017 is Goldstein’s most recent work and was commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum Of San Francisco for the exhibit Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, Opening September 28, 2017. The series features 11 large-scale Black and White tableau images with representing characters and passages from Leaves From The Garden Of Eden.
Dina was awarded the Prix Virginia in 2014, an International Prize for Women, and invited to Paris where an exhibit was mounted.

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