This is God's country
2011

This is God's country, 2011
Photography (180 x 120 cm) and sound-track
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Untouched photo taken randomly in a Jerusalem street from a walk in 2009 in which the artist takes us to the interwoven sounds of the city.
Sound (loop): Jewish prayers from the Wailing Wall are superimposed on the call to prayer of the muezzin and the sounds of the Mehane Yehuda souk in West Jerusalem are intertwined with those of the Muslim quarter of the Souk of the Old Town.
In this installation, the artist plays with both the contrasts of photography where emerges the inscription "This is God's country, do not cross it as hell" in the reflection of a window and the alternation of religious and secular sounds.
It is an invitation to a hallucinatory journey in the heart of Jerusalem where there is a "confusion of languages", a sign of trauma described in psychoanalysis with reference to the double discourse of seduction and tenderness of the adult who immerses the child in the chaos. This adult, is it meant to be the Father figure, tender for showing his love and cruel when unleashing his hatred?