CONTEMPORARY ART
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DORIT PINCHEVSKY
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The massacre of October 7 in the south of Israel had started a new consciousness of evil that is part of human existence, the ways we relate with this evil, usually by ignoring it as though it would never effect us, locked up in a dark room in our minds, exist only in our nightmares, have a secure glimpse at it in horror movies. On this day, all nightmares came to reality and shook our world. The safe world we used to live in, would never return. There will ever exist an uncertainty of the point evil will catch us unready, as it did for all the victims of October 7. The traumatic effect of this day spreads to anybody and is reinforced by the media, presenting us with new aesthetics that are an outcome of the destruction and the people that lost their lives and left evidence of their last minutes, before they perished. In my work I’m looking at this new aesthetic of destruction, trying to look at the face of evil, which is apathetic to human suffering and above all - remember the loss of lives during the horrific event.