{"id":1735,"date":"2013-10-03T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/03\/an-archive-of-my-own-october-2-november-9-2013\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:40:47","slug":"an-archive-of-my-own-october-2-november-9-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/03\/an-archive-of-my-own-october-2-november-9-2013\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1735 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/03\/an-archive-of-my-own-october-2-november-9-2013\/attachment\/1736\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mu4ahbn5FF1r3qmd1o1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em><strong>An Archive of My Own<\/strong><\/em><br \/><span>October 2 \u2013 November 9, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Meet the artist,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong>Nino Biniashvili,<\/strong><strong><span>\u00a0on Sunday, October 6 from 12pm to 6pm.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>In\u00a0<em>An Archive of My Own<\/em>, Nino Biniashvili commits acts of artistic recovery. She rescues rare archival materials from obscurity and transforms them into compelling art exploring Georgian-Jewish experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>In an exhibition that challenges traditional methods of history-making, Ms. Biniashvili brings history home. She answers Virginia Woolf\u2019s insistence that a female artist have access to a personal study.\u00a0<\/span><em>An Archive of My Own<\/em><span>\u00a0is Biniashvili\u2019s \u201croom of her own\u201d\u2014a space that feels at once domestic and revolutionary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>A wooden table, chair and lamp, a large picture-book, a house plant and projected slides invite you into a world of actively engaging with the past for a meaningful experience of the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>Ms. Biniashvili grew up in Georgia during the last years of the Soviet Union. As a Prins Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, she focused her historical inquiry on material available from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, one of the Center\u2019s partners. The slides that she found inspired her drawings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>In her art Ms. Biniashvili\u00a0challenges borders between external and internal, collective and individual, historic specificity and timelessness. Her project explores the role an artist can have in investigating, interpreting and representing history\u2014and the ways in which delving into archives can help us discover new things about our families and ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Archive of My OwnOctober 2 \u2013 November 9, 2013 Meet the artist,\u00a0Nino Biniashvili,\u00a0on Sunday, October 6 from 12pm to 6pm. In\u00a0An Archive of My Own, Nino Biniashvili commits acts of artistic recovery. She rescues rare archival materials from obscurity and transforms them into compelling art exploring Georgian-Jewish experience.\u00a0 In an exhibition that challenges traditional methods of history-making, Ms. Biniashvili brings history home. 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