“The Black Stick and The White Stick  is an audio and video installation that explores the my (Rosa) grandfather’s deathbed confession about the origin of his gunshot wound. He had kept this secret all our lives. In this retelling, the two stories interweave, the truth and the lie, married by habit and time and the onset of dementia. His story acts as a microcosm of how family and history intersect and how inaccessible the truth of both can be. His story is told against the backdrop of the Holocaust, his flight from Romania and the birth of the Jewish state." Rosa Nussbaum, artist

The Exhibition begins with an audio portrait of Nussbaum’s grandfather by the artist’s mother, aunt, uncle and grandmother.

A Beautiful Island: video prop from The Black Stick and The White Stick, 2021

The Black Stick and The White Stick Original recording of the artist's grandfather’s confession, two channel video, 2021

The artist's mother and grandmother watch one of the videos.