Leor Grady is an Israeli artist who explores daily objects and experiences to create conceptual, sculptural, textile, and video works that are at once poetic and subversive. This interview explores how Grady’s art contests the Ashkenazi hegemony that has shaped and controlled the institutional fields of art and culture in Israel and, indeed, most of the Jewish world.

In front of many cameras and representatives of the international community that surround him, unexpectedly, and outside of any protocol that was prepared for this occasion, an elderly Palestinian man dares to stop, to withdraw his consent to leave his home and ceases to move. This old man is author, curator, filmmaker, and theorist Ariella Azoulay’s companion in exploring the archives and attempting to understand its implication in the invention of the figure of “infiltrator.”

Mike Adno reflects on Moses Levy’s legacy as a Southern Jewish pioneer, slave trader, and abolitionist.