Or Zubalsky
Photograph of a mostly white Israeli history textbook against a white background. The Hebrew title reads in dark purple, The Nationalism, and then, Building a State in the Middle East. Centered on the cover is the photograph of the raising of the ink flag around the time of establishment of the state of Israel. A rectangle is cut into a part of the image and reveals a photograph from deeper in the book of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba: people walking on a dirt road past a broken car carrying belongings.

The Nationalism: Building a State in the Middle East

Textbook, 2016-2018.

A function draws rectangles in different sizes with different offsets on a canvas. The rectangles are used to cut into Israeli history textbooks in order to identify patterns in settler colonial pedagogy.

Image Description

Photograph of a mostly white Israeli history textbook against a white background. The Hebrew title reads in dark purple, The Nationalism, and then, Building a State in the Middle East. Centered on the cover is the photograph of the raising of the ink flag around the time of establishment of the state of Israel. A rectangle is cut into a part of the image and reveals a photograph from deeper in the book of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba: people walking on a dirt road past a broken car carrying belongings.

Bio

Or Zubalsky makes paintings, drawings, scores for viewing, and systems: encounters with silence and hope. They are a 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and were previously a resident at Pioneer Works (2023), NEW INC incubator member (2023), and C/Change R&D Lab fellow (2023).

Contact

I like getting messages at or@myawesomestudio.com.

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* Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East
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