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Sound installation with found footag, rubble, text, documentary photos, dimensions variable, 2002
memorial
Serving to help people remember some person or event
Something, such as a monument, intended to honour the memory of a person or event;
A written statement of facts or formal petition
This sound installation serves as a site where we encounter an aural experience of women caught in the aftermath of extreme violence. The sounds constantly shift from the literal to the abstract, using the tension between documentry narrative and the more artificial sounds so that the every day is steadily interrupted.
Made in response to the genocide against the minority muslim community in the Indian state of Gujarat, the sound piece for me is very powerful in how it utilises the potentials of the medium to produce a new language about violence, which moves us on to demands for justice and relief. It’s as if the emotional response the piece provokes causes a sort of personal defacement which creates a sense of realness. |
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© Tejal Shah 2005 |
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