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With these re-creations of this classic revolutionary poster, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, first created by El Lissitzky in 1919, Fiks examines the issues of internationalism vs. identity within the Russian Avant-garde. By superimposing Yiddish on the original Russian text, he interrogates the notion of hyphenated identity, in particular “Russian-Jewish,” and situates the Russian Avant-garde as a point of tension between universality and ethnic specificity.
