Anonymous ID: 06807f Feb. 26, 2022, 5:39 a.m. No.15727845   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7887 >>7916 >>7977 >>8063 >>8241 >>8406 >>8495

Marina Abramovic in Ukraine.

 

"The Crystal Wall of Crying", an interactive installation by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, was erected in Ukraine's capital to commemorate Jews killed in one of the biggest massacres of the Holocaust during World War Two.

 

It will be officially unveiled on Wednesday evening as part of a series of events to mark the 80th anniversary since Nazi troops gunned down nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children at the wooded ravine of Babyn Yar on Sept. 29-30, 1941.

 

A symbolic extension of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the artwork is a "wall for healing," Abramovic told Reuters in an interview ahead of the ceremony.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/artist-marina-abramovics-crystal-wall-crying-commemorates-jews-killed-babyn-yar-2021-10-06/

Anonymous ID: 06807f Feb. 26, 2022, 5:48 a.m. No.15727887   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8241 >>8406 >>8495

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Here she is again back in 2017 with an exhibit called "Generator"

 

Abramović notes that the response to her show in Ukraine has differed from other countries where she previously exhibited. In Ukraine, she says, people have reacted more viscerally and emotionally to the work due to their own volatile and recent history. “Visitors cry and hold others for a long period of time, though they don’t even know who they’re embracing. Later, they emerge from the exhibit space and continue the friendship. I find that interesting because even though you were blindfolded, nevertheless some degree of communication occurred.”

 

Abramović has been particularly struck by the youth response to her work in Ukraine. Though the Maidan revolution took place four years ago, the country is still in the midst of a “transition” and there’s a refreshing air of youthful energy. The artist remarks that when she gave a lecture in Kyiv, she was highly encouraged to see that eighty percent of the audience was “super young.” Abramović adds, “I think that if it’s only my generation which shows up to the exhibit then there must be something wrong. On the other hand, if young people show up, then you know your work enjoys vitality.”

 

https://yes-ukraine.org/ua/about/press-about-us/reflections-on-war-performance-artist-marina-abramovi-and-ukraines-fragile-state