Hospital in Full Moon
2015
Installation
Birth and death are the most important events of family life, and traditionally they are signified by rituals. We have forgotten ancient rituals in the modern western society. Left to face our fate, everyone is sometimes stunned by the reality of life. Birth and death are accompanied with pain and fear, they always bring psychological trauma and shock which are later forced out by the consciousness.
In the traditional society the woman knows not only how to give birth, but also how to rear a child, and her responsibilities include rituals associated with death, such as funeral prayers, etc. Today these traditions are almost lost, but the woman still stays on the borderline of life and death binding the lines of generations.
The installation comprises two white medical folding screens with embroidered pictures on them. Folding screens seem to hide reality, yet, at the same time, they provide a depiction of reality, of the way it is seen by the woman. One folding screen represents scenes of an operation at some hospital, and of the hospital hell populated by the souls of sinful patients. The other screen depicts childbirth suffering and the voyage of the soul to the body of the newborn. The composition includes esoteric drawings of medieval alchemists representing the metaphysical nature of phenomena.
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