I am interested in alternatives to vertical, linear Western thought systems that pursue a supreme framework and origin. I explore nonlinear structures that permits the comfortable coexistence of multiple and contradicting layers of meaning.
My work centers around ongoing research done by my alias, Sarah Gray. Gray’s comical investigations confront the viewer with a world where past, present, and future collapse into each other and there is no distinction between fact and fiction. I focus on methods through which cultural, political and personal narratives are constructed and then use those methods to create a set of alternative – albeit absurd – hypothetical and implausible scenarios.
Engaging with physical spaces, situations and objects that already have layers of context, I reinterpret and introduce new meaning to them. I am interested in recontextualizing existing landmarks and landscape with fantastical narratives that function as facades to excavate cross-cultural mishaps and historical misadventures. My fascination with the ever present integration of history and myth is inspired by my childhood experience in Israel where a strong sense of entitlement to a specific land, and building the nation’s identity, were established through digging in the earth to collect evidence of early Jewish existence, occasionally affirming myths as historic fact.