Zakhor, 1992
Expression Gallery, St. Hyacinthe, Québec

Zakhor means "to remember" in Hebrew.

Zakhor No. 1
aluminum, brass, graphite, water & light

"Using aluminum, brass, graphite, water and light, Safdie has executed a powerful metaphor for remembering. A huge aluminum bowl filled with water rests on the floor. The bowl is interpretable as a container of memories and thoughts and their gestation in mind. A smaller brass bowl floats within it, moving imperceptibly across the surface. It contains graphite – a metaphor for ash (the residue of what is burnt and left behind, yet also that which is used to mark the eulogies or commemorate what one has lost)."

(1) James D. Campbell, C Magazine, 1992

Zakhor No. 2
Plexiglass, glass, earth, water, steel & light

A suspended glass bowl filled with water and rust-coloured desert sand hangs above a larger empty bowl resting on the ground. A hidden light source housed in a steel casing casts light into the bowl of water and sand, which acts as a lens. The result is an ineffable, non-physical reflection suspended in mid-air between the two bowls, created through the reflection and refraction of light.