Jacqueline Nichols
Visual Artist
Jacqueline Nicholls is a London based visual artist. Her work engages with traditional Jewish ideas in untraditional ways. For recent project, Draw Yomi, Jacqueline drew each page of The Talmud, following the daily daf yomi cycle. Her interest in text and language has lead to research that considers handwriting as a form of drawing. The line that traced the internal thought, mediated through the body, language transformed into a physical presence. Exploring the potential contained within the line, and how even when writing collapses and becomes illegible, it still calls to be read. This interest is informed by her Jewish heritage, a tradition that values scholarly wordplay and textual interpretations. She explores themes of touch, power, embodied language, the effect of illegible traces, and the aura of absence.The work shifts between representation to abstraction as she considers the emotional potency of ambiguity.
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Aurora Zinder
Aurora Zinder grew up in Odessa, Russia, surviving under oppressive Soviet rule. In 1942, her father died fighting fascists in Ukraine. By the late 1970s, antisemitism in the USSR had grown so severe that Aurora and her family were forced to flee. Mindful of the corrupt whims of customs officials, they made difficult choices about which items they could bring with them on their journey to New York. A suitcase containing rare china survived the journey and these precious heirlooms still connect Aurora to her history. Her story is brought to life by artist Jacqueline Nicholls.