Treblinka

The work depicts a nondescript mound of earth having the appearance of any other landform but for the fact that it is shrouded in a dank, chemical blue. Suffused in the colour of toxic fumes and chemical pollution, the earth is covered by an atmospheric fog, creating a sense of suffocation. The viewer becomes gradually aware that even the air is poisoned. The lack of life in what ought to be a natural landscape increases the sense of claustrophobia as the more intensely one concentrates on the canvas, the more it seems a lingering death rises out of it.  Part of the series Prussian Blue, the aftermath picture of chemical devastation is the artist’s homage to the Holocaust; a mournful moving tribute, a reminder to never forget. It is a timeless scene, a snapshot of horror existing simultaneously in the past, present and future.

Title Treblinka
Medium Acrylic on wood
Artist Yishai Jusidman
When 10 November 2018 – 10 March 2019
Where Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai
What The Shanghai Biennale