Every Single One

This work was created in light of Nastya’s Hamehageret (‘the immigrant’) project, a visual study of the post-soviet Israeli hybridization as viewed via domestic environments and women originating from the former USSR. Cross-stitching, a classic embroidery technique, is widely associated with Slavic culture, and was present in every single home visited by Nastya for this project – seemingly becoming an integral cultural element of each one. The same technique is also often used as a tool of visual communication, as a symbol of home, nostalgia and enveloping memory.

‘Every Single One’ is a yearning for utopia, cultural integration and national unification.