in the Cubo: Sheri Avraham

Exhibition at Cubo: Sheri Avraham – 70 Faces of the Torah

In the age of social media, we continuously inscribe ourselves through curated feeds, stories and highlights. These digital traces become a contemporary sacred scroll, a living archive through which we seek recognition, belonging and knowledge. Our online selves, both self-designed and externally imposed, function as a modern ritual of interpretation and belief. Within this space of multiplicity, contradiction and intersectionality, identity unfolds as performance and negotiation.

This work is part of the larger project “Mizrachi Futurism” and is a continuation of research that began during Sheri’s production residency at Symposion Lindabrunn in 2025.

“Mizrachi Futurism” is a speculative aesthetic rooted in the identity category of Mizrachim: Jews with familial ties to non-Western countries. Inspired by Afrofuturism, it functions as a cultural-political practice that creates insurgent visions of the future based on Mizrachi histories, diasporic knowledge, hybridity and anti-colonial critique in art, theory and performance. From a Mizrachi and queer perspective, this project reflects on fragmented identity, visibility and belonging.

70 Faces of the Torah presents identity as infinitely interpretable. Referring to the midrashic phrase “The Torah has seventy faces”, the work suggests that identity, like sacred texts, is never unambiguous or fixed, but fluid, multi-layered and open to infinite interpretation.

What remains hidden and what is shown?