2.4" × 3.9" framed dye diffusion prints
Utopia
4” x 6”
Hand-embossed matte with commemorative Lenin stamp
Motherland
Photograph, 24 x 36”
Stateless
10" × 10"
Hand-embossed matte with government issued photograph
Currency
2021
2.4" × 3.9"
Internal dye diffusion print
This image of crystal glassware, alcohol and amber
were used as currency in the “grey market” by my family
members to survive in the Soviet Union. The miniature
image is captured with a large format view camera.
Stateless (adj): having no state, mode, or condition of being
Having fled the Soviet Union as a six-year-old Jewish refugee, I carry traces of a culture that I cannot fully remember or completely forget. Through installation I create imagined domestic spaces that explore the ways in which cultural narratives are passed down through generations. I interpret my personal memories, family narratives and historic contexts creating a window into a half-imagined and half-forgotten place.
