1. Arbeit Macht Frei - 600 x 90 cm, wafer-thin woven cotton fabric, with  red industrial embroidery. This is the sign to the entrance of Dachau and many other concentration camps across Europe. Like a machine gun, the red stitching pierces the fabric which hangs from the museum ceiling. Concentration camp: the monotonous industrial sound records millions of puffs of deaths. Only unjust red blood, in a unreasonable world and utterly indescribable, remains an indelible mark of an age we cannot yet grasp. Video recording of the embroidery of the industrial process in 1:23 in a loop.

 

2. Avinu Malkenu

 

- 200 x 65 x 127 cm, metallic raised baby cot, hand embroidered strip of gauze, needle and thread. Vocals by Anthi Antoniadou.  A baby cot intertwined with medical gauze, symbolic remnants of pain, grueling labor, torture and the struggle for survival.  On a crib the resistance, like a graffiti, are testimonials left behind by the concentration camps, so the crib cries for a redemption and a better tomorrow ... (Avinu Malkenu). The Prayer Avinu Malkenu… asks God to have compassion on us and our children, to help bring an end to war and famine, and to cause all hatred and oppression to leave earth, and we pray it can happen (in the words of Barbara Streisand as an introduction before singing her first concert in Israel at Bloomfield in Jaffa, Tel Aviv).