Fourteen years later, Ashery asked her family to reply to the question, ‘Why do you think I left home at nineteen?’ This intimate home video exposes intergenerational differences of opinion, both regarding Ashery’s departure and regarding the notion of Israel as a ‘homeland’. The film explores universal issues surrounding family ties, anger, guilt, loss and the construction of self through the eyes of others. It was screened and exhibited widely.

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Additional project information: View an extract of the video through the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base

Essay: Rohini Malik Okon, ‘Oreet Ashery/Marcus Fisher’, The Promise, The Land Catalogue, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, also published in Performing Difference, Artsadmin, 2003

Essay: Bernadette Buckley, ‘Terrible Beauties’, in Coulter-Smith, G and Owen, M (eds.), Art in the Age of Terrorism, (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2005)

Essay: Dorothy Rowe, ‘Biography and spatial experience in contemporary diasporic art in Britain’ in Arnold, D and Sofaer, J (eds.), Biographies and Space (London and New York: Routledge, 2007)

Review: Barry Schwabsky, ‘Oreet Ashery DVD’, MAP, Spring 2008