For her installation at La Esquina as part of an exhibit called Disturbances in the Field, artist Judith G. Levy tells succinct family stories, focusing on disconnects.
There's the stark contrast between the side of her family that supported Nazi Germany and the side that had to flee Nazi Germany. And what about the gap between her great-uncle's wife's appearance and the family's insistence that she was a Sephardic Jew, rather than Ethiopian?
Does what we say about our relatives tell us more about us, or them?
"This work is about my family," says Levy, "but it is also about the humor, poignancy, mis-truths, heartbreak, hopes, disappointment, failures, foibles and joy that people in most families experience."
