Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II)

Resumo

"From the memory of pain is born an infinite lament that struggles against an eternal return: Sustenazo (Lament II) by Monika Weiss.
Sustenazo invites viewers to undergo a sensory experience inspired by the forced evacuation of more than eighteen hundred patients and medical personnel from the Ujazdowski Hospital (today, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle [CAA]) during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. In this video, gestures and sounds combine to evoke the universal pain expressed through a dance of continuous lament, as if it were a prayer, a plea, or an expression of grief, remorse, and condemnation.
Within contemporary artistic modes or language, Weiss transforms the memory of the thoughtless violence of war into a poetic exercise, which encourages a conceptual and material reinterpretation of brutality." -- Editora