Description:
leather bound artist's book containing 61 sheets and approximately 122 images
Label Text:
Artist's statement:
"In turns autobiographical, historical, and fictional, Rose Uprooted tells the tale of the Wanderer, a Jewish figure who traverses the world through stories. The Wanderer searches for her great-grandmother’s birthplace in Hungary in an attempt to decide whether her true homeland is the place from which her ancestors came, or if it is, in fact, where she has been living all along. As she travels, the Wanderer finds herself straying into different stories, all of which take place in her true home: the land where she herself was born.
Using text extracted from my own journal entries as I myself undertook the pilgrimage represented in the story, Rose Uprooted attempts to encapsulate a fragment of my emotional response to Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza over the last year. I hope Rose Uprooted shows what an anti-Zionist conception of Jewish Diaspora can look like. Diaspora is a condition of moving forward, rather than retracing steps. It is a fragmented reimagining of one’s mythology and history, not an imperialist reconstruction of an extinct identity. And above all, Diaspora is making peace with history’s loss, not waging violence to win it all back."
Subjects:
Graphite; Leather Link to share this object record:
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