The idea of lamenting in front of a wall intrigues me. It is both public and private, open and confined, isolating and connective, absurd and deeply sad.

Wailing Wall is made up of thousands of birds cut into baking paper and assembled into two lace-like curtains in an attempt to make beautiful the negative space. Light enough to be buffered by motion in the room, they scratch light, unsettling sounds across the floor. The passage of time causes ruptures in the reprocessing of memories. Whilst identifiable as birds when stood back, up close they become a body of lacerations and cuts, holes in which to stuff prayers, fragile enough to almost be pulled apart by its own weight.

Wailing Wall installed at Galerie Op Enheim (photographed by Alicja Kielan), Oktogon Galerie Dresden (Photographed by Baldauf&Baldauf), and Central Synagogue Berlin