Landescape

LANDESCAPE Yehudit Mizrahi (2011)

"Suddenly a man wakes up, decides he is a nation and starts to walk"

Amir Gilboasx


Landescape originated from my own experience as a foreigner concerning questions of where and what is home.
As a New Amsterdammer, I experienced that once I wandered away from the Holyland to Holland, the concepts of belonging and identity became less distinct.

Foreignness, integration, multiple cultural identities; the idea of selfhood in relation to the social environment are all subjects which I am engaged in, both in my personal life as well as in Landescape.

Landescape reveals the dichotomy between the right of each and every cultural group to live in a place they feel safe to call home and the fundamental necessity of pluralistic society for integration.

A last is a form used by shoemakers, in the approximate shape of a human foot. All but one of the wooden shoe lasts in Landescape were purchased in a small shop called Palestine in Jaffa's flea market, Israel. All were made and used before 1948, before the existence of the Israeli state. I brought them all to Europe and then searched for suitable bodies.

I found the combination of the old European suitcases and the Palestinian wooden shoe lasts striking, as there might be some sort of ownership related connection between both objects.

Supported by Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

Assistant: Adam Beni
Electronics: Konstantin Leonenko

Category:

Film & Animation

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