One Day I Will Make The Onion Cry

An intense ritual, an archive of tears and a moving installation. A place where grief for what will dissapear, can be embraced.

One Day I Will Make the Onion Cry gives space and form to the grief that accompanies solastalgia, the loss of something not yet lost. Together with visual artist Manu Siebens, Barbara Raes, co-artistic director at NTGent, created a poetic installation around grief already presenting itself although the real goodbye has yet to come.

The installation, at once a piece of art and an onion cutting machine - can be admired for two weekends in October in museum GUM in Ghent, where you can also attend a one-on-one ritual, guided by Raes and with live music. Participants donate a tear to a tear archive, on display at the museum in October during opening hours. In this way, GUM becomes a place where grief for what will one day disappear, can be embraced.