Or Zubalsky
Photograph of a worn Israeli history textbook against a white background.A rectangular cut in the bottom right area of the cover to reveal a photograph of displaced Palestinians walking with their arms raised during the 1948 Nakba. The Hebrew title reads in red and white, Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East. The majority of the cover is a realistic sepia drawing of a street with cars and people walking. The bottom of the cover is blue.

Time Travels: 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 worn Israeli history textbook against a white background.A rectangular cut in the bottom right area of the cover to reveal a photograph of displaced Palestinians walking with their arms raised during the 1948 Nakba. The Hebrew title reads in red and white, Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East. The majority of the cover is a realistic sepia drawing of a street with cars and people walking. The bottom of the cover is blue.

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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