Girls Got Golds

2020  /  Video Installation (HD video, wood baton, drawing)

Filmed and Edited by Miku Sato

Performed by Caro de Horst and Katrien de Horst / Bente Aalders, Lucie Bower, Irene Cuperus, Sanna Domingos, Ying Ying Egyedi, Lotte van der Laan, Rosephine Nederhorst, Vienna Plugge, Kisako Posthuma and Sanne van der Zwan

Choreographed by Kisako Posthuma

Script Translated (Dutch, English) by Mayumi Nakazaki

Music by Leo Smit and Frans van Ruth (Piano)

The ultimate goal of the Olympics is to promote human development and world peace through sports.

In response to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the artist, who currently resides in Amsterdam, decided to look into the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. The film features a Jewish survivor, Elka de Levie, who was a Dutch women's national gymnastics team member.

There were five Jewish girls in the team, but four of them were killed by the Nazis during World War II. 

This work depicts the life of a woman who survived the Olympics and the war, moving back and forth between the past and the present through her granddaughter. Repeating the Olympics, genocide and life.

        ▼ Installation view of the exhibition at puntWG / photo by Ilya Rabinovich