Commentaries
When something happens that is too big: Too big to tell because it is not only yours. Too big to ignore because it is fully yours. What are the things that I can show and tell? What are the images that cover the unspeakable? What is buried in those pictures? Imagining paintings like tombstones, and scrolls that stand for memories that I have no right to tell. The installation Buried Commentaries is a meditation on hiding. Hiding people. Hiding places. Hiding acts. Hiding what is happening in representations, in ceremonies, in ideologies, in identity, and morphing what happened into new stories, and new images.
The origin installation includes six upright paintings with imagery from staged photo performances representing stories ranging from private to archetypical, and 30 smaller paintings of places in which hiding occurs through normalization, abandonment, and memorials. Among the places I visited are Camp Les Milles in the south of France before, during, and after its reconstruction into a memorial museum, museums and outdoor memorials in Jerusalem and Berlin, and checkpoints in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. The photo performances were done with actors, dancers, performance artists, models, and friends in various locations including Houston Texas, Tel Aviv Israel, Berlin Germany, and Brignole France.
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