The Snowfall installation by Haim Sokol is on view at the lobby of the Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center from February 17. The installation is a mural depicting birds in a winter forest and a snowfall of white rope ladders. According to the author, rope ladders symbolize means of escape or salvation. The stairs in the installation are made from non-woven fabric, which is often used for mopping floors.
The installation invites the viewer to follow the author’s associations: 'When I look at the snow, I remember and imagine. Probably similar to the snow outside the window was the snow falling in January 1944 in the vicinity of the city of Auschwitz in Poland. Or in winter of 1942 in the Ukrainian forest, where the partisan detachment, in which my father was, was located. Black birds on white snow remind me of people in a situation of fatal impossibility to hide, vanish, become invisible. And they also remind me of a text. A sort of pre-symbolic text. It is impossible to read and understand. But it can be experienced. That's why I often go out to the square opposite my house and dance with crows’, Haim Sokol says.
Exhibition dates: February 17 — April 15, 2022
