Girls Got Golds

2020  /  Video Installation (Full 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 the wake of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, through research into the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, Girls Got Golds highlights the story of Elka de Levie, a Jewish member of the Dutch women’s national gymnastics team. 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 one of the gymnasts who pioneered in womenʼ s sports and survived the war, moving back and forth between the past and present through her granddaughter's narration. The film looks into repetitions: generations, life, the Olympics and genocides.

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