Ydessa Hendeles: Grand Hotel

In “Grand Hotel,” Ydessa Hendeles explores the critical themes of cultural identity, displacement, intergenerational trauma and loss linking the past to the present.

Informed by the artist’s family history of persecution and migration, “Grand Hotel” offers a visceral experience that addresses perceptions of cultural identity and otherness.

In a setting that calls to mind “The Merchant of Venice” and the historical Jewish Ghetto, “Grand Hotel” presents a timely questioning of the psychosocial dynamics that construct our world.