Snowfall Installation
Jewish museum and tolerance center. Moscow. 2022
The installation by artist Haim Sokol “Snowfall” was created in memory of those killed in Auschwitz and is a mural depicting birds in a winter forest and “snowfall” from white rope ladders. The installation Snowfall 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 either to read or to understand. But it can be experienced. That’s why I often go out to the square opposite my house and dance with crows, ’ is how Haim Sokol describes his feelings.
