Through the ongoing project and movie trilogy “The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP),” Yael Bartana generates the narrative of an imagined political movement, which seeks to bring back 3.3 million Jews to today’s Poland, and thereby to rethink the wider question of minorities in Europe. This fictive narrative collects and mixes ideological and visual sources, starting with early Zionism and the invention of the new Jew, moving to European antisemitism, and ending in the Israeli present. As part of the project, Bartana created an increasing array of images and objects, which form a language that echoes the history of Zionism while also undermining it, in an attempt to imagine a different possible future. The exhibition collected and generated different elements that allow us to rethink the use of historic images, and what happens when art generates images for political movements
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