Healing Measures 2024

JCC Mid-Westchester, Scarsdale, NY

Healing Measures is a community-centered artwork by Goldvicht that explores the profound collective knowledge of human healing. In this site-specific installation at the JCC, Goldvicht gathered personal stories from members of diverse faiths and cultural backgrounds. These narratives reflect the many stages of life—from the sorrow of loss and the complexities of parenthood to the quiet struggles embedded in daily existence. Through these voices, the work weaves a poetic investigation into human mechanisms of pain and healing as well as the different ways one attempts to repair the irreparable.

The installation, on the main ramp inside the building, functions as an intimate sanctuary, inviting visitors into a communal space where private, often unspoken stories are shared in this text-based work, creating a communal space to contemplate vulnerability and encourage reflection on the ways we tend to our inner wounds, both individually and as a community.