Timeline deals with memories which affect body and soul through breaking and reconstructing.

This video installation is Avishag’s personal response to a two year study where with an experimental kit Avishag examined the conscious control of around 100 participants in the process of losing control. The kit is not meant to be a therapeutic tool but is a tool for design language.
 

        Avishag’s  motivation for working amongst broken fragments  stems from her own personal dealing with post-trauma therapy –  being raped, which she kept a secret for 10 years and losing her father at a young age.

PTSD develops as a result of an extremely difficult experience, either physical or emotional e.g. someone who is almost killed, severely injured, suffers sexual abuse or loses a close relation. After a traumatic experience the symptoms of PTSD are very common. In cases where the symptoms continue, they disrupt quality of life and impair  functioning of day to day life. The challenge of rebuilding  the pieces without returning to the original object raises the question; is it possible to heal the soul to be what it was before the event.

In the Timeline performance parts of video and sound are laid out which  tell of breaking, taking apart and absurd attempts to put together.

The exhibition brings together individual fragments into one whole piece. Avishag examines how to traumatize an object and to rebuild something new from the fragments as a healing  process.