MAY: Imbeko
Ukubaluleka kobuMama, 2020, Igqabi legolide, Ilaphu kunye nepeyinti yefleshi kwi-plexi, 20”x 20″
Ekuphela Kwento Ebalulekileyo, 2020, Igqabi legolide, iphepha kunye nesiphawuli sepeyinti kwiplexi,
15″ x 17”
NguDianne Hebbert
Curator’s Note
by Gal Cohen
Maya Ciarrocchi’s art practice speaks strongly to the value of Remembrance. Through personal narrative, research-based storytelling, and embodied mapmaking, Ciarrocchi’s works recreate access to the stories of perished communities and demolished places, thus exploring the physical and emotional manifestation of loss. This still image was captured from an in-process interdisciplinary performance work: Site: Yizkor, commemorating the Jewish communities who perished during the Holocaust. Among the source material included, there are architectural renderings of demolished buildings, memory maps of vanished places and figures, and prose remembrances obtained from historical Yizkor books. This month, when Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed, Maya’s work resonates and invites us to dive into the remembrance of these lost communities.
About the Artist
Dianne Hebbert is a Nicaraguan-American artist and curator. Usebenza ikakhulu ekupeyinteni, printmaking kunye nokufakela art. Njengomthonyama waseMiami waya kwiSikolo esitsha soBugcisa seHlabathi ngaphambi kokuba afumane i-BFA yokupeyinta kunye nokuzoba kwiKholeji yokuThenga kunye ne-MFA yakhe kwi-Printmaking evela kwiKholeji yaseBrooklyn.. UHebbert umamkeli weVermont Studio Centre Fellowship kunye nokuhlala, wakhethwa njengoMculi weSmack Mellon Hot Pick 2017 kunye neNkokeli esakhulayo yobuGcisa baseNew York 2016-2017 Umfo. U-Hebbert ugqibile ukuhlala kwi-Trestle Art Space, IConstance Saltonstall Foundation yezobuGcisa kwaye ngoku iyindawo yeChashama yokuQhagamshela umzobi.
Remembrance
NguRabhi uAri Perten, UNorman E. I-Alexander Centre yoMlawuli woBomi bamaYuda
The Latin phrase nomen omen suggests that something’s name gives insight into its essence. Such a statement is certainly true for the concept of honor. In hebrew the word honor כבוד (kavod) iphuma kwingcambu כ.ב.ד (k.v.d) meaning weighty or heavy. The diametric opposite is the word for curse, Isiqalekiso (klala) evela kwingcambu yesiHebhere ק.ל (k.l.) meaning light. An implicit message from this etymology is that to honor someone means to treat them with due and deserved seriousness. While to curse someone is to treat them lightly. Conceptually, such an assertion is not terribly challenging. Intellectually it is easy to espouse the value that every person is deserving of honor, that every person deserves to be taken seriously. Yet our lived experience so often tells a different tale. Often we live in the margins, nokuba ubambelele ngokuvuya (kwaye ngamanye amaxesha nokukhulisa) ukubaluleka kwethu, okanye, okwahlukileyo sizibona singabalulekanga, eqhelekileyo, and meaningless. In both moments of extremes we would do well to remember that the value of honor insists on our essential substance. As people we are worth honor and such a statement is not uniquely limited to our existence. Observing pleasant sights, ukuva ivumba elimnandi, ukunambitha incasa emnandi yonke, phantse ngokwemvelo, elicit reflexive praise. If the inanimate can be deserving of such honor, how much the more so beings endowed with intelligence and understanding. How do you see honor in yourself and honor in others?
