Tracing a Dispersed Homeland; Ukrainian Hassidism, Palestinian Judaism, Brazilian Zionism, explores fictional constructs of nationalism and self-determination, critically examining the phenomenon of Homeland. Rooted in my family's migration and displacement, I question the validity of the nation-state as an imagined political form.

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Through layered encounters – conversations with anarchists fighting on the Ukrainian frontlines, bullets piercing the skin of those I love in the West Bank, and the warmth of grandparents’ library in Brasília – I interrogate intricate relationships among communities charted by ideological constellations.​

 

Tracing a Dispersed Homeland confronts the manufacturing of national identity, formed in particular by state-controlled media, religion, and language. It is exposed as often imagined, imposed, paradoxical, and constructed at the expense of others – as one homeland is erected to erase another.