I visited the Lightbox in Woking earlier and saw an excellent installation: Still Point by Suki Chan, a Hong Kong artist.
You can read more about it on
stillpointfilm.co.uk and
here
Suki Chan’s new work, Still Point, is a film installation that engages with sacred spaces and places of pilgrimage.
"Whilst filming in sacred sites in Jerusalem, I was struck by how
some parts of the city have two names, one in Hebrew and the other in
Arabic. How one population can ‘unsee’ another group. How one part of
the city is closed off to another group – by borders which are sometimes
physical and sometimes psychological."
Still Point transports the audience from the site of the humble
wooden structures offering refuge along Pilgrims’ Way in Northumberland,
to contested sacred sites in Jerusalem, and the interior spaces of
abandoned Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.
Have a look at the
preview on Vimeo Well worth it.......
It's based on the poem by T S Elliot The Still Point in a turning world.
I loved the 2 sacred:spaces visited: Lindisfarne and Jerusalem... Holy Island and Holy City
