Triple Displacement Drawing is a meditation on European Jewish diaspora, cultural memory, and the intergenerational effects of war and the displacement of people. As an attempt to "re-member" my family history - disjointed by suicide, forced migration, adoption and transnationality - I attempted a virtual reconstruction of the house my father grew up in and the space it occupies in the family memory.
The Werkbundsiedlung was an experimental socialist housing project in Vienna that was a showcase for modern architecture – Adolf Loos and Richard Neutra among its architects – where my father lived until the beginning of WWII when he and his surviving family fled Europe. In the installation I drew from the utopian visions of this early modernist architecture and family history using construction snap lines and the shadows from a large architectural model. The model, a jigsaw puzzle recreation of a Mies van der Rohe dollhouse design given to me by my father (who is also an architect), was rendered in 3x scale to emphasize its original proportion to the body of a child.