The installation consists of two sections: the Under-Last Supper and Upper-Last Supper.
The Under Last Supper section portraits the sieved image of Spinoza and his caute of arms : CAUTE. Caute through the TimeSiev!
The Under Last Supper section interprets his fate, the fate of a thinker crucified by his oun community.
The yellow table (under) personifies and predicts Spinoza's fate.
The choice of the yellow color has a very significant purpose, which is to embody the installation with duality of meaning.
Yello the color of sunshine, of the Emperor bit at the same time and since the Middle Ages through the second world war, the color of betrayal and the OUTCAST! Kingdom and Betrayal!
There are more layers to this installation. A semantic layer.
The suppers are being prepared and served in Kitchens.
The word kitchen in Hebrew sounds: MI-TBACH. de second part of the word which is TBACH means, indicates: slaughter, killing....
The upper last Supper section of the installation represent the kitchen, the MI-Tbach
The under last Supper section represents te TBACH, the killing, the betray, what is going under the table predicts already Spinoza's fate, crucified!
What strikes is the absence of the guests arround the table.
Their existance and its outcome is sieved out in both sections of the installation.
I chose the sieve object as a metaphor for life history, manipulating/manipulated history, for the paradox of appearing and disappearing.
By the use of series of sieves with appertures embracing the size range of the material being tested, complete information on the subject (Spinoza) can be obtained. Seperation and purification, filtration and screening. Like an archeological sieving going through all stages of life.
SPINOZA'S CAUTE THROUGH THE "TIME SIEVE"
Translation of the texts on the sieves:
Hineni (hebreew): here I am
CAUTE: caution
