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While We Wait is an immersive installation about the cultural claim over nature. The towering structure consists of small elements of stone from different regions of Palestine, fading upwards from earthy red to pale limestone. The stone elements are shaped by both revolutionary and traditional techniques: they are designed on a computer, cut by robots and hand-finished by local artisans.
The process of ‘stereotomy’, the art of cutting stones so they can be assembled into a larger configuration, enables the lace- like structure to support itself. Moreover, gaps between the stones allow the viewer to see out, while being encouraged to imagine the installation’s eventual surroundings in Palestine through evocative sound and video elements.
The project is born at the V&A, While We Wait lives now permanently in the Cremisan Valley, where the controversial separation wall is currently being built, threatening to segregate the community, isolate land from its owners and sever the historic link between the valley and its eponymous monastery. In stark contrast to the rectangular concrete wall, which dominates and divides the Palestinian landscape, this installation will venerate its extreme natural beauty. Returning to the very earth from which it was made, it celebrates the visual, symbiotic relationship between nature and architecture.
While We Wait therefore suggests an alternative to the cultural claim over nature.
While We Wait is an immersive installation about the cultural claim over nature. The towering structure consists of small elements of stone from different regions of Palestine, fading upwards from earthy red to pale limestone. The stone elements are shaped by both revolutionary and traditional techniques: they are designed on a computer, cut by robots and hand-finished by local artisans.
The process of ‘stereotomy’, the art of cutting stones so they can be assembled into a larger configuration, enables the lace- like structure to support itself. Moreover, gaps between the stones allow the viewer to see out, while being encouraged to imagine the installation’s eventual surroundings in Palestine through evocative sound and video elements.
The project is born at the V&A, While We Wait lives now permanently in the Cremisan Valley, where the controversial separation wall is currently being built, threatening to segregate the community, isolate land from its owners and sever the historic link between the valley and its eponymous monastery. In stark contrast to the rectangular concrete wall, which dominates and divides the Palestinian landscape, this installation will venerate its extreme natural beauty. Returning to the very earth from which it was made, it celebrates the visual, symbiotic relationship between nature and architecture.
While We Wait therefore suggests an alternative to the cultural claim over nature.
