Riki Stollar

Charcoal on Cardboard, PLA 3D Print, Cardboard, Plastic Bowl, Fan

Communities can be either chosen or forced, raising questions about how groups are formed and when we no longer belong. Reflecting on personal experiences of being part of some groups and excluded from others, I wonder how we connect when we are already clinging. But when a group collapses, separations and exclusions appear. What, then, will one remember—the joy of coming together or the pain of falling apart?

The installation explores collective objects, memories, and bodily gestures of gatherings as rituals of mutual consumption. It features plastic chairs piled high until melted, an orderly arrangement of broken clapping hands and leaning figures displaying trust and dependence, seeking shelter in darkness, and a dynamic cardboard roll.

"KHONEN's VOICE. We're separated, you're in a magic circle". (Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, S. Ansky, 1914-1919)

The simplicity of being together and the potential of violence are circular movements from the inner, like mud molded and destroyed, only to be continuously cyclically created.

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