{"id":15302,"date":"2021-03-25T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artjournalstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:54:14","slug":"hide-and-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/?p=15302","title":{"rendered":"<em>Hide and Seek<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-15307\" style=\"max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-19-1 ml-slider-pro-2-18-1 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-15307 ml-slider ml-slider-lightbox-1-11-3 gallery wp-featherlight-1-3-4 ms-theme-blend has-thumb-nav\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_15307\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_15307\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-141x100.jpg\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-15330 ms-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"lightbox[15307]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a.jpg\" class=\"slider-15307 slide-15330\" alt=\"Alt text: Color photograph of two hands holding an interactive sculpture made of folded paper in the shape of a child&#039;s &quot;fortune teller&quot; game.\" rel=\"\" title=\"Fig1a\" style=\"margin-top: 0.708453410183%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-1000x736.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-200x147.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-720x530.jpg 720w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1a-560x412.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Jenny Yurshansky, <i>Hide and Seek<\/i> (folded view), 2021, interactive sculpture,<br \/>inkjet print, 3 3\/4 x 3 3\/4 x 3 in. (9.5 x 9.5 x 7.6 cm) (photograph provided by the artist)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-141x100.jpg\" style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-15331 ms-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"lightbox[15307]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1039\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b.jpg\" class=\"slider-15307 slide-15331\" alt=\"Color image of a collage of Russian alphabet primer illustrations showing children engaged in various forms of war games. A traditional Moldovan embroidery pattern borders the left and right of the image.\" rel=\"\" title=\"Fig1b\" style=\"margin-top: 0.637632338787%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-500x369.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-1000x737.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-200x147.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-720x531.jpg 720w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1b-560x413.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Jenny Yurshansky, <i>Hide and Seek<\/i> (front view, flat), 2021, interactive sculpture,<br \/>inkjet print, approx. 8 1\/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm) (photograph provided by the artist)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-141x100.jpg\" style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-15332 ms-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"lightbox[15307]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c.jpg\" class=\"slider-15307 slide-15332\" alt=\"Color image of a traditional red Moldovan embroidery pattern drawn on graph paper.\" rel=\"\" title=\"Fig1c\" style=\"margin-top: 0.708453410183%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-1000x736.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-200x147.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-720x530.jpg 720w, https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig1c-560x412.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Jenny Yurshansky, <i>Hide and Seek<\/i> (back view, flat), 2021, interactive sculpture,<br \/>inkjet print, approx. 8 1\/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm) (photograph provided by the artist)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#E38174\" class=\"has-background has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #555555;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jenny-Yurshansky-Hide-and-Seek-Printout-Front-and-Back.pdf\">Download the <em>Hide and Seek <\/em>PDF here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and print it double-sided, in color. Folding instructions are included in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hide and Seek<\/em> explores how systemic forms of oppression, suppression, and propaganda are often masked in \u201ccharming\u201d representations of folk tradition, in everyday materials, and in revisionist storytelling. The piece considers how images and rhetorics of play can be used to shape conversations around who has the right to claim citizenship, who has the right to seek asylum, and how immigrants should be treated by the state. It highlights how seemingly benign images (utilizing tropes of childhood innocence and naive patriotism) can travel along diasporic routes as instruments of state violence\u2014replaying and reentrenching historical patterns of nationalism and ethnic persecution outside of their primary contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hide and Seek<\/em>\u2019s interactive sculpture contains a collage of Moldovan folk embroidery patterns and Soviet-era illustrations taken from alphabet primers. On one side, richly patterned embroidery hides a darker dimension: my family was culturally disqualified from wearing such embroidery and participating in many folk traditions, despite our having lived in the region for multiple generations. As Jews, we were never recognized as ethnically Moldovan, and the absence of these traditional patterns marked my family as other\u2014forever an expendable remainder population, to be openly persecuted whenever it was politically expedient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other side\u2019s figurative graphics come from the books my parents carried with them when they emigrated as refugees from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. As I was born stateless, moving across the borders of non-Russian-speaking nations, these primers served as my first introduction to written Russian. Along with the Cyrillic alphabet, the books are filled with Soviet propaganda and embedded with jingoistic ideas, support for a militarized state, and endless notes and nods on how to be a \u201cgood Soviet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presented in the form of a child\u2019s paper \u201cfortune teller,\u201d <em>Hide and Seek<\/em> formalizes the way these patterns of propaganda and design are folded in on one another, creating endless permutations when the viewer engages with the object. Further repetitions and patterns are found in the images of children actively engaged in their war games. They remind me of the insurrectionists storming the US Capitol earlier this year. Dressed in animal skins, flags as capes, horned helmets, and other fantasy costumes, the children provide an uncanny echo of the insurrectionists as the paper unfolds and takes shape, reflecting patterns of state-sponsored suppression, targeted racism, and exclusion. This interactive sculpture reminds us to be wary of all the seemingly harmless ways in which the threat of nationalism is represented and placed in our hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center;font-size: 14px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"416.25\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Va4wkZA5yQM\" alt=\"A 6-minute video explaining how to cut and fold the Hide and Seek PDF, in order to produce its fortune teller shape\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br><br><figcaption>Jenny Yurshansky, video instructions for how to construct <i>Hide and Seek<\/i>, 2021, 6:15 min. (video provided by the artist)<\/figcaption><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyyurshansky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Jenny Yurshansky\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> practice is deeply informed by being a refugee. Through a research-based approach, she explores the trauma of displacement, interrogating notions of belonging and otherness within the frames of landscape, historical documents, and social constructs. Formally, this manifests as absence, loss, or erasure.&nbsp;Her long-term projects form intertwined narratives and span the mediums of sculpture, photography, installation, and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folk tradition meets revisionist storytelling in Jenny Yurshansky&#8217;s printable sculpture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1549,1550,1551,1515],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-artandimmigration","tag-artandnationalism","tag-interactiveart","tag-printouts",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}