SELECTION II, 2022
Selected - The 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial 2023
award - best art awards textile art category 3rd place winner, 2024/25
Selection II focuses on the innocent people who were murdered during the Holocaust because they were Jewish. The work is an avowal of remembrance, but also a reminder that antisemitism did not cease when World War II ended.
Today, antisemitism is proliferating everywhere from Europe to the United States, from the Middle East to Latin America, and Jewish people are still being killed because of their religion. On closer examination of the artwork, there are names, histories and photographs of some of those lost in the 20th and the 21st century.
People who wore glasses were selected as a means of gaining a random cross-section of Jewish society which was lost to hatred. Only one person does not wear spectacles, an elderly Jewish man who was murdered in Lyon, France in 2022.
Featured in:
Quo Vadis?, 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial catalogue, 2023, pages 52-53
Textile Portraits, People and Places in Textile Art, Anne Kelly, Batsford Books, 2023, page p.32
If something happens, I would want there to be somebody who would remember that someone named D.Berger had once lived. This will make things easier for me in the difficult moments. David Berger, born in Przemysl, Poland. Shot dead in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1941, aged 22.
In-situ at Art Museum Riga Bourse, Latvia
Rina, 15, her sister Maia, 20, and their mother Lucy, 48, were travelling to Lake Kinneret for a family holiday over Passover. Their vehicle was driven off the road by terrorist gunmen who went up to the car and opened fire on the women at close range. Twenty-two bullet casings were found at the scene. Rina and Maia were killed instantly, and Lucy passed away three days later in hospital after sustaining life-threatening injuries.
In-situ at Art Museum Riga Bourse, Latvia
Measurement: 70cm x 62cm x 1cm (dimensions variable)
Process: Hand stitch
Materials: Cotton, silk threads, 75 vintage ophthalmic lenses, 75 miniature picture frames, photographs
Exhibited in:
Tradition and Innovation, QUO VADIS?, The 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial, Art Museum “Riga Bourse”, Riga, Latvia (16 June - 17 September 2023)
Fabricated? Solo Exhibition, London, England (1 October 2024 - 30 April 2025)