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Article: Hana Iverson at Eldridge Street Synagogue.(installation)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Hana Iverson's site-specific multimedia installation at Eldridge Street Synagogue performed a kind of elegant healing ceremony on this historic building, speaking in multiple ways to the decayed structure and to the religious tradition it embodies.
In an empty shaft whose long-collapsed stairs once connected the synagogue's main floor and its women-only balcony, a 40-foot fall of white cloth was illuminated by a huge, projected video image of hands (the artist's) sewing parchment. A collage, of voices--elderly and younger women, many with connections to the synagogue or its Lower East Side neighborhood--reminisced, sang and prayed in an audio loop that played ...