For almost two years, the media has been covering the most well-documented genocide in world history. Suffering, death, and images of the tragedy of Palestinian children, women, and men in the Gaza Strip.

Lament is a form of mourning of a home, a place, vanishing landscapes, and life. It is a silent performance as I cannot seem to find the right words. It is the lament over a single human being, alone in their powerlessness, helplessness, fear, and anger, on a small stretch of sand.

“Life seems one long, never-ending day. This day is filled with suffering and moments of horror, which you see so often that they merge into one. Our new collective routine is to listen, to be a witness, to sit, and to walk amongst death”.

Bahzad Al-Akhras, Gaza Strip, Palestine 2024

Trailer: https://youtu.be/QQF_ua-DnOA

With the financial aid of the Pomorskie Region

author and performer: Aurora Lubos

music: Alex Catona, Michał Jacaszek

The premiere took place on 4 October 2024 at Przestrzeń Sztuki WL4, Gdańsk.

Aurora Lubos – a Gdańsk-based independent artist, tied for 25 years with the local and British art scene. As of 2000 a performer of the Vincent Dance Theatre, England. As of 2019 co-founder and member of the Arbuz Association working for refugees and persons with a hampered access to education and art. As of 2021 a volunteer of the Homo Faber Association and Granica Group, active in providing humanitarian aid on the Poland-Belarus border. Her meetings with refugees bore fruit with Postcards from the Border and Border, dedicated to the humanitarian crisis on the Poland-Belarus frontier. Her major works include Nudes, based on histories of victims of domestic violence; Witajcie / Welcome, a response to the 2015 migration crisis, and Out of Water, a performance expressive of the artist’s disagreement with the silent death of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

photo Joachim Dąbrowski