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Index of Displacement
An Exhibition by Margarita Fainshtein
October 29th - November 15th
Opening Reception Thursday, October 29th 5-7pm
Margarita Fainshtein collects her multi-generational family identification documents from around the world, and reproduces them by sorting them out into groups and layering them down using printmaking techniques. Language is an object, a representational tool of culture and memory. Do the memories, layered one upon another, become buried in the past or are there remains left from the former layer, life, identity, time? Through the printmaking process, Fainshtein creates relief prints that combine to build a new unified identity. By enlarging the prints and giving them another physical form, Fainshtein makes them monumental, telling not just her personal story, but the stories of those who have also lost their identities.
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