Rachel Libeskind
State Portrait, 2017
Original silkscreen with ink splatter from performance
40 x 26 inches (124.46 x 66.04)
Edition of 20, each splattered uniquely
Signed
$ 700 unframed

In 2017, Rachel Libeskind debuted the installation and performance The Day The Father Died, dissecting the death of Josef Stalin. Part re-enactment, part homage, critical yet humorous, the work is foremost autobiographical in nature: focused on the day that Stalin died in 1953 and the subsequent funereal ritual that engulfed the entire USSR, Libeskind explores how her own existence is partly owed to Stalin — her Jewish grandparents met in 1941 at a Gulag in what is now Kyzyl-Kiya, after they escaped to Russia following the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland — and how her family’s story of resistance and survival is intertwined with the history of Stalin.

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