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TBA: Dreams of Unknown Islands
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
Sasha Wortzel’s Dreams of Unknown Islands transforms the architecture of the museum into an ecological dreamscape in which coastal shores, animal migrations, and the shifting colors of the sky are transmitted through ritual sound, projected film, and a set of functional sculptures housing five listening islands that urge us to pause, rest, and contemplate. The soundscape is the exhibition’s weather—a Meltempi of voices reciting Kaddish. The sacred Jewish prayer originated in ca. 30 BCE, written in Aramaic. Its purpose is to comfort the soul of the deceased and reaffirm the faith of the mourner. Wortzel awakens us to the tenderness necessary to confront the political and ecological challenges we face today. Through visual poetry and recited prayer, Wortzel offers us the experience of mourning—a ritual practiced by both humans and animals—that has evolved over millennia into a pronouncement of belief, hope, and the possibility that does not ignore the suffering we face.