Gita, 85 years old, is to be uprooted from her home in the kibbutz and forced into a nursing home. As her consciousness crumbles, personal memories of escape, loss and persecution mix with current realities shown on television.
Her traumatic holocaust experiences, and the yearn for a lost loved one intertwine with the current catastrophe of a wife of a fireman killed on 9/11, to form a nightmarish reality – a frozen time trap continuously tightening, intensified by the fear of the nursing home.
The unification of these moments in time seeps into her daughter, creator of this work, who is condemned to perceive reality in the same way.
Troubling nightmares absorbed from her mother accompanied her childhood dreams, and are now shot at her from the television screen in the form of a trapped Palestinian girl.
Installation -
Troubled water consists of a video-art, surrounded and supported by an Expressionistic installation. The video-art emerges as a micro cosmos, like a sunrise on a dark cellar wall. A searchlight passing time and again, wraps the barren surroundings with circular static time, lights up and freezes fragments of clothing, a toy sailboat and a turned over bed washed ashore. Like the setting sun, the video-art perpetually sets into the cellar wall.
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