My heart is empty like a mirror - Cape Town episode
Date: 2019
Art form: Installation Art
Serie: מייַן האַרץ איז ליידיק ווי אַ שפּיגל (My heart is empty like a mirror)
In the Cape Town episode, the main focus was the perspective of people who passed through troubled years with no visible scars or wounds. They were part of a system and they were aliens at the same time. They were in the course of history, following the flow. During Fascisms, the one that happened in Europe in the first half of the last century and the one that happened in South Africa in the second half, the majority of people did not commit any atrocities, but they were present while deportation, segregation was happening and racial laws were proclaimed, sometimes turning their heads, sometimes believing what they were told. European history had trials, it had Nürnberg, but the majority of the reckonings happened at the mirror and took years. In South Africa, the process of changing was political and intimate. It was not based on carnage, but on a slow awakening of awareness. The long and deep work made to create this installation was focused on that intimacy, on those mirrors and the frequency of breath produced by the one who stands in front of his own blurred image, waiting to see it clear again.
