Show Me As I Want To Be Seen

Tschabalala Self | Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Feb 7, 2019–Jul 7, 2019. Curated by CJM Assistant Curator Natasha Matteson.

 

How do we depict “the self” if it is unknowable, inherently constructed, and ever-changing? How does the concept of portraiture shift when categories are in crisis and visibility itself is problematic? Jewish thought on performed and fluid identity can be interpreted in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible, an archetypal story of an empowered declaration of Jewish identity. Likewise, the Talmudic notion of svara is a potent entry-point to Jewish practices of self-determination, themes that animate Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.

 

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