We’re confronted daily with vast amounts of information without being certain of its credibility, origins, or intent. We can no longer rely on the well-honed filters we once used to distinguish fact from fiction. In an era when world leaders openly offer “alternative truths,” the boundary between truth and falsehood becomes blurred. Today, our default assumption is that news might be fake, and even when a lie is uncovered, it often carries no real consequences.
Written in Stone visualizes voices from Israel’s political figures, capturing their recorded speech as sound waves. A large machine “paints” these waves in disappearing ink on a rotating, faux-stone surface. The speeches are written with ink that isn’t truly ink, on a stone that isn’t truly stone, and all traces vanish soon after they appear.
Ephemerality is a recurrent theme throughout Liat Segal’s work and continues in pieces such as People You May Know, Sand Printer, and Confession Machine.
Installation
Technique: Electronics, mechanics, software, plaster, disappearing ink
Installation size: 120\120\60 cm
Written in Stone was commissioned by Printscreen Festival, Israel