Based on her four-year-old daughter’s drawings, Ma transforms rapid childhood gestures into intricate, slowed-down renditions. The series examines the mother-child relationship, tracing the balance of intimacy, influence, and distance.

A floor piece tracing the daily movements of students in a Berlin vocational school. Random chair positions were marked over time, creating layered patterns that quietly record presence and absence.

A group of drawings coincidently found in an archive reveals the intergenerational trauma and an attempt to process it. Framing was created to be displayed in Germany, where Nazi symbols are illegal unless used in an educational context. Accordingly, Framing questions the possibilities and limits of education and commemoration.

Originating from a photo of “Lucky Jew” figurines in Warsaw, this work explores stereotypes, desire, and cultural projection. Through music, poetry, and dialogue, it reflects on antisemitism and its uneasy presence in contemporary Poland.

A chance meeting between Laufer and a 100-year-old woman uncovers intertwined childhood histories in Berlin and Kibbutz Hazorea. The work reflects on shared — yet contrasting — life stories.

Based on 17th- and 18th-century men’s indoor head coverings, these objects blur the line between private and public, gender and status. Reframed as still-life subjects, they become ambiguous, almost absurd symbols.

A collage of children’s Holocaust Memorial Day drawings from 1980s Israel. Beneath its playful surface, the curtain reveals how young children process collective trauma through distorted symbols and imagined narratives.

Created during a yearlong project at the Jewish Museum Berlin, this work reflects on the unspoken tensions within a group of artists from diverse backgrounds, including recent refugees. The shared space carried a silent awareness — an unaddressed “elephant in the room.

A fictional audio guide to Thessaloniki, mixing historical fragments, interviews, and poetic instructions with Israeli songs based on Greek melodies. It evokes a city both familiar and estranged, a world left behind.

An immersive audiovisual collage of Greek and Israeli songs, from early classics to trash-pop. Drawn from YouTube clips, Playback blurs cultural boundaries, celebrating shared musical histories in a karaoke-like experience.

A drawn short story based on 1970s caretakers’ diaries from Kibbutz Hazorea. It reveals the quiet loneliness of both children and night-shift caretakers in communal children’s homes.

An installation on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm honoring fashion illustrator Lieselotte Friedländer. Laufer redraws her 1920s fashion drawings and repositions them in their original location, tracing both her success and her erasure under the Nazi regime.

An artist’s book reworking Fanny Lewald’s 19th-century autobiography by cutting and rearranging its’ text. The resulting novelette creates a rhythmic, fragmented portrait of a moody 30-year-old woman.

Tracing John Constable’s landscapes, this series reflects on romantic notions of artistic exploration in nature. The journey unfolds not en plein air but indoors, questioning tradition and authenticity.