1864

2026 Carla Rapoport Award

Robin Kane
Tel Aviv, Israel

1864 reflects on the Circassian Genocide and forced exile of the 1860s, approaching this history not as a closed event but as a memory carried across generations. Through still and moving images created with an AI-assisted process, Kane considers displacement, inherited grief, cultural survival, and the enduring connection to a lost homeland. Rather than reconstructing historical violence, the work focuses on what remains after exile: silence, repetition, longing, and the persistence of identity.