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October 13, 2005
Fallen Leaves
In the Jewish Museum Berlin there’s an exhibition by Menashe Kadishman called “Shalechet (Fallen Leaves).” It’s a collection of over ten thousand metal faces roughly cut from sheet metal, of varying sizes and thicknesses. The idea is that you walk directly on these metal faces. As you do so the noise of the faces grinding and banging against each other and echoing off the walls creates a folorn, unsettling sound that stays with you long after you leave. Looking down at your feet as you walk on the faces is also disturbing.
We saw many memorials to the victims of the Holocaust while we were in Germany but for me this was far more affecting than the more abstract memorials like constructions of vast empty rooms, deserted exhibition spaces or arrangements of irregular concrete blocks.
Posted by Oliver at October 13, 2005 05:00 PM
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