2013 | Digital Prints
Enchanted forests are places of magic and danger that lie outside the scope of ordinary human expeditions: they are realms of talking trees, giants, and fairies, witches hungry for the tender flesh of children. What exists in the forest transcends the limits of human experience, and it serves as a place of transition and transformation. The trees in Silva’s Wounded were captured on film several weeks after the fire that raged through the Carmel Mountain in December 2010. In the course of five days, the conflagration had consumed more than 25,000 square kilometers of woodland, including more than five million trees.
From 2010 to 2013, Silva created a trilogy of projects that take place between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Her journey traces marks left on the ground by Israel’s national and neoliberal agenda, winding through national parks, suburban gardens and other public areas.
The work’s soundtrack is the sounds of a bodies moving through foliage, recorded two years after the fire. As part of the conclusions drawn from the largest fire in Israeli history, the millions of oak trees that helped the flames to spread have not been replanted. And so, for the first time in decades, it has become once again possible to see the original flora of the Carmel region – and listen to its sounds against images of scorched trees. מקדונלדס מוצף
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