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SALA-MANCA GROUP
is a group of Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields and media. The group also curate art events and edit an
independent art journal. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation with textual, urban and net contexts, as well as social and political issues.
www.sala-manca.net

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At the age of 18 I moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. With this relocation the language, culture, and climate I encountered changed. I left my birthplace in the hope and belief that I may find and create a new place of my own and fulfill my unknown dreams. Years [...]

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Like everything in the world has got a history, the good/bad T-Shirts also have one. How a T-Shirt series derived from a costume for an Epiphany performance, I am going to tell another time at this place.

For the present facts and figures:
T-Shirts with trilingual print:
Arabic / German / Hebrew
with Arabic and Hebrew phonetics
front: gut [dschajed [...]

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The maps that I draw are illusory; they have never been and will never be. The maps emerged while I was looking through the pictures in my family album, which become part of a memory from the past that I could never go through again.
As the viewer examines the maps for the [...]

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I was born in 1980 in occupied Palestine. Borders, checkpoints and the feeling of being caged have been a constant experience throughout my life and naturally became a main subject of my artistic work.
My personal struggle against borders increased in recent years. My marriage to an Israeli woman highlighted how separated and [...]