Painting a Moon on Viehauktionshalle, 2014

Painting a Moon on Viehauktionshalle, 2014
Isaac Chong Wai
Acrylic on mirror 196 x 78cm, video 16:12min, photo print
Viehauktionshalle, Weimar, Germany

In Isaac Chong Wai’s “Painting a moon on the Viehauktionshalle”, Chong paints black color on a mirror and leaves a circle surface to project a moon-shaped reflection on the building. Viehauktionshalle, where people were kept in transit before being sent to Buchenwald, a concentration camp during the Second World War. During the exhibition, the mirror was intentionally broken by a stranger at night during a storm. Thenceforth, a broken moon embracing the cracks of the glasses is projected at the back of the building whereas the warmth of the light espouses the coldness of a blocked architecture. Viehauktionshalle was burnt down by accidence in 2015.