To Forget Beautiful Things

Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod

20.8.21

"I was never here. (Please, wait. Looks like you’re in a hurry to leave. Here, I’ll rephrase.) I’ve never been here. (Yes, perhaps I’m lying. Or perhaps I’m lying in a language other than my own.)..."

Text by Yaara Shehory

Continue reading: Hebrew / Eng

Persecution, Reconstruction and Memory (Heb)

Review by Dana Schweppe on Hila Laviv's exhibition (Erev-Rav Magazine)

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בית הקיץ

The Summerhouse

الصيف

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מראה הצבה

Installation View

تثبيت

Digital collage in acrylic-dibond with a wooden stand, paper cuts, a table with chairs, video projection and a print on half transparent fabric. Photography: Tal Nisim

המכתב (קרון שינה)

The Letter (Sleeper)

الرسالة (عربة النوم)

Video, 6 min 48 sec, looped, 2021

The raw material for the video work The Letter (Sleeper) is a letter written by Anita Warburg, a cousin of the artist's grandmother, upon her return to Hamburg for the first time since she left Germany following the Nazis’ rise to power. Hila Laviv intended to dramatize the letter, and to that end sorted the details mentioned in it into seven themes – cast, site, time, objects, comments, dining and wellness, audio, and regulations - and then classified each word in the letter accordingly. She proceeded to attach to each theme a matching image from the family's summer house. Thus, when a word related to time is mentioned, an image of the view will appear; when a word related to cast is mentioned, an image of the fireplace will appear, and so forth, according to the following key:

Cast–Fireplace, Site–Staircase, Time–View, Objects–Table, Comments–Open-Air Amphitheater, Dining and Wellness–Pool, Audio–Lawn, Regulations–Roman Terrace

Credits:

Narrator: Sofia Berg-Böhm | Video Editing: David Shushan | Site Photos: Dana Lev Levnat

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נספחים

Appendix

ملحق