In her practice, artist Ilit Azoulay develops research-driven, site-responsive works that bring forward the hidden layers of history embedded in architecture and archives. Combining photographic collage and moving image, her work constructs multi-voiced narratives in which marginal details, memory, and speculation intersect.
“No Single View” presents a three-channel film installation and a new series of photographic collages created for the historic rooms of Museum Villa Stuck. The work engages the figure of Mary Stuck—the only child of German Symbolist artist and founder of Villa Stuck, Franz von Stuck—through a fictional interview performed by 77 actresses. Through this multiplicity of voices, Mary appears less as a historical subject than as a narrative device: a plural persona whose shifting, fragmentary points of view mirror the workings of memory.
Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s notion of the “carrier bag,” Azoulay assembles an open-ended archive in which fragments of history accumulate, disperse, and recombine. Moving between fact and fiction, the installation unfolds as a constellation of perspectives—inviting visitors to navigate layered narratives and consider history as an ongoing process of construction.
Ilit Azoulay, still from MARY, 2025–2026, video commissioned by Villa Stuck, Munich, on the occasion of the solo exhibition “No Single View” (May-October, 2026). Courtesy of BRAVERMAN Gallery, Tel Aviv and LOHAUS SOMINSKY, Munich.