I chose the Boss story to engage with, although many other German companies profited during the war years by exploitation, because Boss was a clothing manufacturer; the idea that a costume doesn't just provide a protective layer but can also be a form of disguise, intrigued me. Hugo Ferdinand Boss made gentlemen's suits in Metzingen, Germany until 1931. Later, when he became a Nazi party member, the firm made uniforms. Now the privatised and highly successful fashion house follows contemporary trends that still conform to an average uniformity.

Tanya Ury 2004

One sees Ury together with antecedents, including the German impressionist painter Lesser Ury and the German Jewish writer Else Sara Ury. And then Albert Einstein turns up. Although she is not related to the scientist, Tanya Ury’s picture of the pipe-smoking researcher together with the artist, holding a (pipe) in the same manner, has a bizarre aura.

A humorous edge flashes up directly with the seriously intended representation of personal history.

By Dirk Richerdt – Saturday 10th March 2007 RHEINISCHE POST (D)

A series of art works: consisting of photographs, objects and digitally handwritten texts, dedicated to Ela Ury

A DVD projection of image and sound, English Version 33 minutes, German Version 40 minutes, has also been produced.

Promised Land, about Ury’s family and the problematic of Israeli politics, encompasses art works and biographies that scrutinise Israel’s history: 2 perspectives from 2 generations of different eras, the contemporary view and the biblical with creative license.