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GUNDEGA EVELONE, ANDRIS LANDAUS
SENSE OF CORRECT ORDER.
INSTALLATION.
ŽAGARE (ZHAGER) ONCE HAD ONE OF THE OLDEST AND PROMINENT JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN LITHUANIA. IN IT’S HEYDAYS JEWISH POPULATION WAS ALMOST 60% OF ALL ŽAGARE RESIDENTS AND THERE WERE ABOUT MORE THAN 5500 JEWISH PEOPLE IN TOWN WHO WAS ACTIVE, CULTURED PART OF SOCIETY. NOW, AFTER WRECKS OF 20TH CENTURY THERE ARE NONE OF THEM, ONLY EMPTY OR REBUILT JEWISH HOUSES WHICH HAVE LOST THEIR PRIMAL TASKS AND EXTINGUISHING GRAVE STONES IN JEWICH CEMETARY WHICH WITH TEXTS THAT NOBODY CAN READ. HISTORICAL MEMORIES ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE HAS ALMOST FADE OUT.
WE USED PRIMITIVE GRAPHIC TECHNIQUE AND TRANSFERED DIRECT VISUAL INFORMATION FROM OLD JEWISH GRAVE STONES TO PLACE WHERE THEY MADE THEIR “MIKWEH” (PURIFICATION) RITUAL IN BATH - RITUAL THAT IS MEANING PART OF LIFE OF THIS CULTURE. WE TRIED TO CONECT MARKS, FRAGMENTS OF PAST TO GET SENSE OF CORRECT ARRANGEMENT.ŽAGARE FRINGE FESTIVAL 2017., ŽAGARE, LITHUANIA