Penance and Rehabilitation | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Penance and Rehabilitation | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Penance and rehabilitation is an installation made of objects, a map, a prayer and eight projections – one recorded testimony and a series of recorded actions (some of them took place in front of Dutch concentration camps Vught, Den Helder and Eijsden). These actions that speak about the struggle to preserve life are a way of revealing the unspoken as a starting point for a debate. The work is linked to factual historic events and reveals a different side to the official history and politics. It also questions the universal issues of guilt, silence, judgement, corporal punishment and suffering and emphasizes the complexity of reality that is never merely a good/bad duality.