Documentation of mixed-media installation
Michael Blum returns to a history of the future still ahead: The year is 2048, exactly a century after the establishment of the State of Israel, and the U.S. has withdrawn its support of Israel. The Palestinian population, having tripled in number, has forced the Jews to leave the country. Several dozen have found sanctuary in various public building in Holland, the U.S. and others places around the globe. The exhibition presents several news publications of the time, along with photographs of the refugees’ temporary lodgings in the Van Abbe Museum and newspapers interviews conducted with one of the refugees 20 years after the event. Blum’s work constitutes a kind of “pre-enactment”; it is both a vision of a future to come and an image of the past, capturing ancient emotions and fears still prevalent in local reality.
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
