Promised Land:
Right of Return
 
 

2005
Right of Return photograph (1.14 x 1.14 metres)
Right of Return 2 digitally handwritten texts in English and German,
each: H 33 x B 100cm

Edition of 7

 

Right of Return comprises of the red-tinted photograph of a newspaper article: "Israel 'is sealing off Jerusalem Arabs'" Guardian International 8-14.4.2005, concerning the contentious political situation in Jerusalem; 2 digitally handwritten texts in English and German are an added component where Tanya Ury tells her story as an Anglo/German and Jewish artist who lives in Germany, writing and making art about the Shoah and its aftermath; here she comments with thoughts on Israel.

The title Right of Return refers to the debate over the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the Israeli/Arab wars of 1948 and 1967, who wish to return to and live in Israel.

Tanya Ury