Text By Eyal Danon, The Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon, Israel

Nira Pereg, along with Jean Michel Bolima Amesi, a political refugee from Congo residing in Israel, takes a virtual tour of Kinshasa, Congo while wandering in different areas of Tel Aviv. The work consists of two parts: one includes excerpts shot during the tours of the virtual Kinshasa in Tel Aviv; the other comprises excerpts from studio meetings where Bolima Amesi told Pereg about the moment in which he discovered that he had been mistaken about the man he believed to be his father. An interruption occurs while listening to the story recounted in four languages: English, Lingala, French and Hebrew. The story is told while shifting between these languages, thus leaving anyone who does not understand the language spoken at a given moment with "gaps in the story-line".

Download a text by Dror K Levi Souvenir.pdf written for for Block Magazine April 2007

Souvenir on view at the The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. June 2009.