My grandmother tells this story (Presentation Supermarket Art Fair)

Presentation at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm 

Photos by Berksun Çiçek

My grandmother tells this story is a search for my own non-religious, anti-zionist Jewish identity. Looking to traditions, food and rituals that I grew up with, I am contemplating my roots through kugel— an Ashkenazi Jewish dish, made of egg noodles, pot cheese, eggs, raisins, cinnamon and sugar. A cinnamon havdalah candle and besamim (bowl of spices)— shabbat traditions representing duality and refreshing the soul, fabric dyed with raisins with sugar beet drawings, ceramic egg noodles rolled out and shaped by hand, and audio consisting of thoughts about immigration, the Yiddish concept of doykeit (‘here-ness’), and my grandmother’s story about pot cheese.