Photograph of an Israeli history textbook against a white background. The Hebrew title in red reads, Journey to the Past. Obscuring the subheading and the collage below it is a rectangular cut that reveals a photograph of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba from deep in the book: people walking on a dirt road next to a broken down car, carrying belongings. The collage depicts well known world leaders, historical events, and popular figures. A red circle with an image of a coin contains text about

Travel to the Past, the liberty

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 against a white background. The Hebrew title in red reads, Journey to the Past. Obscuring the subheading and the collage below it is a rectangular cut that reveals a photograph of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba from deep in the book: people walking on a dirt road next to a broken down car, carrying belongings. The collage depicts well known world leaders, historical events, and popular figures. A red circle with an image of a coin contains text about

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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* Recent Paintings
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* Unseen
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* When a Reference to a Name is Lost
* Merge Conflicts
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* Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East
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