Or Zubalsky
Photograph of a used Israeli history textbook against a white background. Hebrew title reads, The Age of Terror and Hope, 1870–1970. Below it a yellow monochrome version of Dalí's Persistence of Memory. Cut into the bottom of it and into the rest of the background is a rectangle revealing a photograph from deeper in the book of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, people walking carrying some of their belongings. The rest of the cover is a solid blue with lines of small Hebrew text.

The Age of Terror and Hope, 1870–1970

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 a used Israeli history textbook against a white background. Hebrew title reads, The Age of Terror and Hope, 1870–1970. Below it a yellow monochrome version of Dalí's Persistence of Memory. Cut into the bottom of it and into the rest of the background is a rectangle revealing a photograph from deeper in the book of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, people walking carrying some of their belongings. The rest of the cover is a solid blue with lines of small Hebrew text.

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
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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