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Pioneers of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (2), 2011
Colour photograph on dibond
production image (photograph) from Mur i wieza
120 x 80 cm
Edition 1/5 (+ 2 A.P)

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2011, Art Basel

The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) is a political group that calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to the land of their forefathers. This work is an image from the film 'Mur I Wieza'. Mur i wieża (Wall and Tower) was made in the Warsaw district of Muranów, where a new kibbutz was erected at actual scale and in the architectural style of the 1930’s. This kibbutz, constructed in the centre of Warsaw, was an utterly ‘exotic’ structure, even despite its perverse reflection of the history of the location, which had been the Jewish residential area before the war, and then a part of Warsaw Ghetto. The film evokes previous heroic images of strong and beautiful men and women who mythically established Israel. They were depicted as determined pioneers who, despite the most unfavorable conditions, kept building houses, cultivating land, studying, bringing up children collectively, sharing their assets and constantly training to fight off potential enemy attacks. This is the world that the artist proposes to resurrect in the 21st century, in an entirely different political and geographical configuration. ‘I quote the past, the time of Socialist utopia, youthfulness and optimism — when there was a project of constructing a modernist idea of a new world’ (Bartana).
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