DYBBUK – The Dybbuk in The Well

From the series “Snapshots from the Garden of Eden” (2017)

Italy, sixteenth century
Unlike the benevolent Ibbur, the Dybbuk is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It can be expelled from a live host body by exorcism, or it will leave once it has completed a possession. A belief in its existence is one of the ways in which our ancestors tried to make sense of the existence of evil in the world.

The series “Snapshots From The Garden Of Eden” features 11 large-scale tableau images with representing characters and passages from the book “Leaves From The Garden Of Eden” by Howard Schwartz. The series includes modernized scenes from each of the four primary types of tales: fairy tales, folktales, supernatural tales and mystical tales. The black and white pieces feature the rich and ethnically diverse characters made up of divine royalty, temptresses, supernatural spirits, and Hasidic figures that star in these ancient dramas. Dina challenges the viewer with themes of destiny, temptation, justice, wisdom, blind faith and circumstance. Dreamscapes and symbolism are staples within Dina Goldstein’s work as they are in these early narratives.

Watch here the Making of … the series

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