JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. MEMORIAL TO JAN PALACH. PRAHA - CZECH REPUBLIC

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            The House of the Mother of the Suicide (Left) and The House of the Suicide (Right)


Wednesday, Nissan 4, 5781. March 17, 2021.

Shalom! World. 

Alsovo nábr., 110 Stare Mesto. Praha - Czech Republic.

John Hejduk's pair of architectural structures. The House of the Suicide and the House of the Mother of the Suicide, are once again on view in Praha. Inspired by a poem by David Shapiro, the pieces were first designed in the late 1980s as an ephemeral memorial of the Czech dissident Jan Palach whose death was in protest of the 1968Soviet invasion. On January 16 permanent versions of the two structures were installed in Jan Palach Square (formerly Red Army Square), with a plaque that displays Shapiro's poem, "The Funeral of Jan Palach."

Hejduk's work is deeply moving as well as political, a reminder that form and content are not polar opposites. "PIeces are in the middle between incredible beautiful and poetic and strong with a message. Hejduk thought of the spike as a sunburst, as sonic - the mother is quite and turning in on herself. Implosion of the sound and explosion. The sonic act when Jan dies is his sound going out into the universe as an act against the apathy of the students in 1968. He set himself on fire to set them on fire."






Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi, Advisor, Consulting and Education; International Relations Analyst

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