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Project type

Engraving on ceramic tiles, water colors, permanent marker and grout

Date

2018

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel.

The subconscious always appears to us as something tangible, it is a sense that exists without control and therefore is tangible like nothing else, fear is always subconscious and therefore tangible, and appears on the walls around us and in the bathtubs. The warning signs appear right in front of our eyes, drawing their plan of destruction on a map so that we can mark our escape route on this map, and we imagine that we are escaping through the chimney.
The work consists of engravings from a drill with a diamond head. The source of the images in the work is taken from two architectural plans of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the first from Auschwitz One, which was the first camp established in Auschwitz, and the second plan is Crematorium 2, which included the gas chambers, crematoria, and more, in the Birkenau camp. In addition, there is an engraved drawing of a spaceship inside its launch vehicle, a drawing of an engraved figure with watercolors, and a marker that is above all these engraved images. Some of the engravings were filled with grout, a material that fills the spaces between the tiles.
The outline plans of Auschwitz were drawn, among other things, by prisoners with technical skills who were in the camp. That is, the programs were written as a mechanism for self-destruction. The engravings in the work on the wall are reminiscent of the cuneiform writing used on clay tablets, which was an initial stage in the development of civilization. The spaceship is a much more advanced stage of the aforementioned development, on the one hand, it is the pinnacle of technology, but on the other hand, it is also an escape from civilization. The work sees two peaks of humanity in the 20th century, the journey into space, which to this day is a peak for the development of civilization (at least a symbolic peak ), compared to Auschwitz, which is a symbol of human degradation. But it seems that the two events are not so far apart in fact, as the following historical example demonstrates:
The German rocket scientist Werner von Braun produced the first ballistic missile in the camps of the Germans during World War II, where 8,000 forced laborers died. After the war, Brown moved to the United States and served as father to the American space program and thus produced missiles for peaceful purposes, which caused accusations against him and his view of being an opportunist and a hypocrite. The mechanism of humanity's self-destruction has not stopped, and just as a mechanism for the development of destruction has been converted for peaceful purposes, it can just as well be reversed again. In a more topical sense, questions arise about the mass production of bricks that came before from a traditional place, and today takes place in mass and mechanical production, what is the sign of the extinction of civilization, and more. The very act of placing it in an ordinary kitchen as a continuation of a wall of tiles that were there before shows the basicity of these moves, as those whose seed comes from human nature, every person.
In addition, the tiles that were produced in the past in a traditional process are now produced in industrialized processes, which constitutes the erasure of traditional knowledge from civilization, and addition demonstrates that mechanization is an additional self-destructive process to the knowledge of civilization.

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