The Right Side of History, 2023, two stacks of printed paper, dimensions variable. 

The Right Side of History (2023)

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The Right Side of History consists of two stacks of paper. One reads “Israel,” the other “Palestine.” Viewers are invited to take a sheet from either stack.

The work examines how certainty, morality, and alignment are performed in public life. The phrase “the right side of history,” used so often by both sides after October 7, 2023, assumes that history is both fixed and binary. Yet any student knows that it is re-written and re-interpreted by each generation. As the stacks in this piece diminish unevenly, the work changes shape. Its evolution varies depending on the date it is staged, its location and its audience. 

By reducing vast geopolitical and ethical complexities to two words on paper, The Right Side of History exposes how the language of conviction often flattens nuance. Every war is made of two sides, each believing in its own paper-thin righteousness. We live in a moment we cannot fully understand. Future generations will decide what we were—heroes, cowards, fools.

The Right Side of History is a record of that uncertainty.

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