To mark the obliteration of the Jewish population of Kaunas. An installation in an abandoned building on the edge of the old city, active from dusk till dawn.
The abandoned building perched on the hill was once a Hassidic Jewish Synagogue. It was last used as a synagogue in 1940 when the Jewish population of Kaunas was 32,000 people, almost a quarter of the city’s residents. Today the Jewish population of Kaunas is less than 300.
A Murmuration is an evocation of that absence.
It turns out that the beauty of murmuration movements often arises purely out of defence, as starlings strive to put distance between themselves and the predator.
The starling is one of our most recognisable birds, but figures show that 40 million starlings have disappeared from the European Union… since 1980. (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)