A Tomb for Boris Davidovich / land art / sculpture / 2009
Land art work is an allusion to the famous novel by Danilo Kis 'A Tomb for Boris
Davidovich' – it shows a grave in the shape of a bed which is made from natural
materials (stone, wood, soil). This bed simulates a tomb by having the space where
the body lies filled with soil whereas the headboard is filled with gravel. People who
survived the holocaust, mass persecutions and terrors by any ideological or
totalitarian regimes such as fascism, Stalinism, Khmer Rouge movement, apartheid
etc. can, in a way, 'hardly' wait to lie down, fall asleep and to 'rest' from omnipotent
civilisational evil... This is a bed for all of them.
Davidovich' – it shows a grave in the shape of a bed which is made from natural
materials (stone, wood, soil). This bed simulates a tomb by having the space where
the body lies filled with soil whereas the headboard is filled with gravel. People who
survived the holocaust, mass persecutions and terrors by any ideological or
totalitarian regimes such as fascism, Stalinism, Khmer Rouge movement, apartheid
etc. can, in a way, 'hardly' wait to lie down, fall asleep and to 'rest' from omnipotent
civilisational evil... This is a bed for all of them.
