Longing for a Home That Never Was

Inkjet print, inkjet-based sculpture

I live between two countries, suspended between two cultural worlds. The works in this exhibition trace a personal journey through memory, longing, and the experience of dislocation. They arise from a nostalgia for Russia—not as a geographical entity, but as an emotional and cultural space, deeply embedded in my consciousness even as my body is rooted here in Israel. Like an old photograph, nostalgia does not faithfully reconstruct the past, but reshapes it through a diffused lens of layered, often conflicting emotions. Fragments of childhood memories, tastes, scents, objects, and fleeting moments of home are interlaced with a persistent sense of estrangement and the quiet understanding that a return is impossible. The place I long for cannot be retrieved or rebuilt.

This exhibition is an attempt to articulate longing, loss, and the search for home through visual language. My work explores life along the fault lines between cultures, between memory and presence, between longing and lived reality. Photography becomes a tool for investigating the idea of home as a space of identity, memory, and the continual pursuit of belonging. The sculptural works are constructed manually, from photographic fragments that have been cut, layered, and reassembled through a slow and deliberate process of making and unmaking. For me, this is a gesture of healing—an act of piecing memory back together, allowing it to surface and become tangible.