Isabel Rocamora, Faith.(2015) Digital film for installation (2 K transferred to HD), three channel and single channel. 22’. Country of production: Israel/ Palestinian Territories/ UK

Synopsis

Faith is a three screen installation which poetically considers the conflict between the dominant monotheistic religions in Jerusalem through proposing a unification in their gesture of prayer.

Referencing the three image icon on a human scale, Faith presents a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim praying in time and place synchronicity. Here, the evident juxtaposition is accompanied by an uncanny similarity of inner state and gestural intention – softening difference and questioning segregation from a human, spiritual perspective.

The wilderness of the Holy Land serves as setting for the intimacy of worship, providing both a Biblical reference from which all three religions feed, and the expansiveness of a liminal desert scape – a promise of passage. Far from proposing a ‘normalisation’ of the current political situation between the Israeli State and the Palestinian and Christian communities, this triptych aims to re- evaluate the function of separation walls in the presence of Jerusalem’s fervour of communion.