sorrow has no country 0:22:38 Intallation, video Ready-made flag pole, hanger, flag holder, water bucket, dyed bed sheet, ink, rope Pictura Dordrecht 2024
Sorrow has no country is a personal reflection and response to the war in Gaza started in Oct 2023 and still ongoing during the exhibition of this work (Jan 2024).
This project started by a phone-shot video spread on Twitter. This 1:30 minutes video depicts a man contemplating in the ruins, putting focus on a seemly silent individual in the background of the violence and ruins, he was not doing anything but simply sit there. I can feel the waves inside him. So I want to visualize this silent but intense emotions from a suffering individual in the war and question about individual destiny hidden behind a bigger narrative.
I return this video into images, print them in the size of my phone screen, put them together in the shape of a flag. Then I shot those images with a water gun. The blue ink from the print dissolve in the water and fall on the white fabric underneath. It dye the fabric into very subtle blue. I then make a flag out of it and collect the blue water.
The process is showing by a video played inside the wall by a projection on the wall inside. Audience can watch the video when they crouched down to the hole or stand very far from it.
