Or Zubalsky
Photograph of an Israeli history textbook on a white background. The cover is a collage of mid 20th century photographs of war, liberation, and flag raising. A small rectangular cut in the top left area of the cover reveals a photograph from the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. The Hebrew title reads in orange and then blue, The World and the Jews in Recent Generations, Part B,1: 1920–1970.

The World and the Jews in Recent Generations, Part B,1: 1920–1970

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 an Israeli history textbook on a white background. The cover is a collage of mid 20th century photographs of war, liberation, and flag raising. A small rectangular cut in the top left area of the cover reveals a photograph from the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. The Hebrew title reads in orange and then blue, The World and the Jews in Recent Generations, Part B,1: 1920–1970.

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.

Index (incomplete)

Title
* Recent Paintings
Select Works on Paper
Select Works on Panel
* Unseen
Decentered
* When a Reference to a Name is Lost
* Merge Conflicts
Request Deferred
* Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East
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