We think we know places
The video work comes after many years of research and effort of defining my identity as a female immigrant from Russia in Israel and again in the US. With the beginning of the war between Russia-Ukraine stories about the origin of the family from Ukraine started to open up. Following by the flow of the images and videos from where my family might have lived once, I began to imagine their life, in the past and what it would look like in the present, during the war. The amount of found footage available on YouTube gave me freedom to imagine how it might look and feel to live off the land of my grandparents.
The video work is in collaboration and conversation with the writer Katya Lipovetsky.