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Subject(s)

• Photography, Artistic [Browse]
• Photobooks [Browse]
• Jewish mythology—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Folk literature, Yiddish—Pictorial works [Browse]

Notes

• Includes brief artist's biography and index.
• Artist's statement: Rooted in the depths of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore. From mouth to ear to pen to performance, Jewish myths evolve across the diaspora, braiding themselves into both past and future, echoing their origins and never entirely replicating. The photographs tell tales of cycles, looming tension, unsettled environments, and open-ended truths punctuated by ritual and iconography. With a distinct focus on sun-soaked gestures, objects, and anxieties, the photographs sprawl between the referential and the fictitious to form a visual language that stretches and shifts across lands, generations, and the stories that give it meaning. Within the world of these images, the act of questioning transforms into an inventive ritual. The elaboration of allegories become inherited heirlooms for speculative futures. Through a photographic framework that examines how Jewish narratives are shared, inherited, and reshaped with each retelling, this project cultivates an environment sown from a turbulent past and reaches outward toward the rumbling world to come.

ISBN

9798989960217

LCCN

2024952263

OCLC

1518550000

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