Jenny Yurshansky: What We Carry (OPENING DAY)

What We Carry explores how the experiences of immigration and displacement impact us, personally and collectively. Through community storytelling—the practice of sharing stories to preserve culture and foster connection—artist Jenny Yurshansky considers how we remember family history and how memories shape our sense of home and belonging. The artist, whose work is deeply informed by her family’s experience as Soviet Jewish refugees, examines the narratives that are carried in our everyday objects and in our bodies—they hold our stories even when one generation has tried to keep them hidden fr…