The work revolves around the Hebrew word for “revenge”, which featured prominently in the hateful graffiti that covered the streets of Jerusalem during 2002’s blitz of suicide bombings. The performance’s central image is a delicately balanced system of speakers, the sound emanating from which (consisting of the verbs “revenge” and “forgive”) vibrates little mounds of sand. Despite the Hebrew context, Bahar stresses that the work’s images and sounds transcend their immediate cultural context.
