our house is cut out of soft wallpaper

our house is cut out of soft wallpaper

26 Popa Soare Street Bucharest, 023983, Romania Friday, May 12, 2023–Sunday, June 25, 2023

Orit Ishay, based in Israel, whose own family past is linked to the history of war and forced migration from Eastern Europe, frequently addresses themes connected to relations of power, questions of identity and socio-cultural paradigms. 

manamanot, 02:00 min, b/w, silent, graphic animation, moving image by orit ishay

Orit Ishay

ManaManot, 02:00 min, b/w, silent, graphic animation, Moving image, 2013

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Starting a conversation on displacement and its implicit acts of hospitality and hostility, Orit Ishay's solo show at Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest, Romania, reaches out beyond cartographies and conflicts, focusing on rising fears both past and future-bound, as well as feelings of nostalgia, in the attempt of creating a shared experience of empathy, in the vein of Svetlana Boym's, words: What is crucial is that nostalgia was not merely an expression of local longing, but a result of a new understanding of time and space that made the division into “local” and “universal” possible, in imagining the future with hope.