Gay Block, A Recontextualized Ketubbah, Chromogenic color print, 1994
Artist/Maker:
Gay Block
Bio:
American, b. 1942
Artist/Maker:
Malka Drucker
Bio:
American, b. 1945
Title:
A Recontextualized Ketubbah
Date:
1994
Medium:
Chromogenic color print
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 15/16 × 20 in. (60.8 × 50.8 cm) Image: 23 1/2 × 18 5/16 in. (59.7 × 46.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the artists
Accession Number:
1994-58

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Gay Block and Malka Drucker collaborated on this work, which appropriates an image of a marriage contract or ketubbah from Livorno in the Jewish Museum's collection (U 8440). In their reworking of the 18th century marriage contract, the couple has superimposed an image of their wedding portrait, providing a new context to the traditional Jewish ritual object. The artists performed their Jewish wedding ceremony in 1989 surrounded by family and friends. The background of the photograph is a detail of the fabric from which the couple's matching wedding garments were made.

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