Tanya Preminger was invited to the residence of the Pedvale Open Air Museum of Art, Latvia, to create environmental work as part of the international project “Memories from the Past” was 2009.
The idea of the Ritual Cut project is to bring the Jewish spirit to the place where the Jewish community was destroyed.
During the Holocaust in the city of Sabile, all Jewish residents were killed. And in memory of those killed and to calm the souls of the dead, she brought the land of Israel and mixed it with the land of Latvia.
The work “Ritual Cut” consists of two large Incisions in the body of the Earth in the shape of a cross. Incisions reproduce the same technique used for ceremonial tattoos in primary cultures. The bottom of the Incisions is filled with soil from Israel.
Project "Ritual Cut", 2009, Earth, grass, 4.5 x 60 x 75 meter. Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Latvia.