Can We Heal?
2000
Steel
4.5 x 10 x 5 feet
A 5 -page hinged steel book born out of Goldner’s trip to Poland and the Ukraine to visit her grandparent’s birthplace. The work contains the phrase “Can we heal from the wounds of our tortured history? Lithuanians, Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews, Everyone.” in both Lithuanian and English. The piece lives in Europas Parkas an amazing outdoor sculpture museum in Lithuania.
She also has a series of small scale steel books that “have pages that are hinged together and movable; the pages read independently–but also as an overall image when the book is closed.”
Also of note at Europas Parkas is the piece LNK Infotree a sculpture made of almost 3000 TV sets that has the shape of a tree when viewed from above. There is a statue of Lenin lying on his back in the middle of the labyrinth. “The sculpture symbolizes the absurdity of Soviet propaganda that for over half a century had been implanted in people’s minds with the help of senseless TV. The narrow paths that dead TV sets form show its limitation”
Senseless TV. Must See TV. Senseless TV. Must See TV. Senseless…