"Edori Fertig is an artist who has for many years celebrated ordinary, discarded objects by elevating them to iconic status. Many of the motifs that reoccur in her work are items remembered from childhood that she found whilst clearing out her family home in New York following the death of her father. They include a pair of her grandmother's gloves, a lace table runner and family snapshots. Fertig set the objects in paste to make prints from them, likening this process to embedding the objects and their owners in her memory.

The process of shipping objects back from the USA to Europe from where her grandparents had fled violence a century earlier led Fertig to consider the experiences of refugees. Moved by testimonies of children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport trains, Fertig began work on her 'Memory Trains'. The use of the train motif reflects how trains both saved lives but also transported millions of Jews to the death camps. Each carriage features an object that appears simple but might have great importance to a person on the move. Many feature toys that might have been treasured by the Kindertransport children. More recently, Fertig has continued to explore the theme of displacement in her small sculptures of boats that include pieces of driftwood found during hikes along the coast of England."
Julia Weiner