Reconciliation

Reconciliation | Carrara marble | 20 x 110 x 25cm

The sculpture combines Emma’s fascination with spirituality, human history and symbolism. With a practice based on traditional techniques, and aiming to pay respect to the profound subject matter, Emma decided to make the piece out of Carrara marble in reference to Michelangelo’s Pieta. The aim of the sculpture is to create a visual interpretation of reconciling two Jews by sharing their respective wounds in a unified object. The work juxtaposes the hand stigmata wound, which represents the suffering of Jesus Christ, with an Auschwitz concentration camp numbered tattoo, as the modern stigmata of Jews persecuted during the Holocaust. The arm displayed in the exhibition would be seen lying on a one of the seven surfaces used in the prints; black, straw, stones, feathers, coal, bones or moss.

Impression of Eliezer | Mud, leaves and moss | 45 x 20 x 20 cm

Emma created a portrait of Eliezer Goldwyn in mud, dry leaves and moss representing the fragility of nature, man’s place in it, and her friend’s refusal to be stuck in the mud of his past or be defined by his experiences during the Holocaust.

Interview with inmate no157040 | 30mins

This documentary is based on an interview with Auschwitz survivor Eliezer Goldwyn who agreed to lend his number to Reconciliation and whose story of survival is at the heart of the project. Eliezer sadly passed away on January 5th 2017, aged 93 years.

Digital Print Edition | Seditionart.com

Reconciliation digital edition created specially for Sedition is a video work which forms part of the project. Through the careful arrangement of coloured backgrounds, the digital edition of Reconciliation shows the marble sculpture positioned with two outstretched arms, fading in and out of seven recognisable natural surfaces; from stones and straw to feathers and coal. The screen is hung in a Sedition frame and played on a loop with the music playing softly. Music by composer Martin A. Smith.

Reconciliation | Prints | Black

This is an example of what the physical prints look like hung on a wall. Next to the prints is a quote by Hegel on Reconciliation, which inspired the title for the show. “Beauty contains ugliness, just as truth conceals lie, and for reconciliation to take place, beauty and ugliness must be reconciled into a concrete unity, that is a higher form of Beauty, which is also Truth”.

Reconciliation | Prints |Red Feathers

Red Feathers is one of the background examples in the series of prints that support the show.

Reconciliation | Prints | Charcoal

Reconciliation | Prints | Moss

This is another background example in the Reconciliation print series.