Shechina is a work about pain and healing in the modern era. The production of the work takes place in Tel Aviv, Guangzhou, Brooklyn and Beacon. The film is comprised both of documentary and fictional parts, intertwined throughout the entire piece. In many traditions it is argued that we are in an age of darkness, and that salvation is yet to come. The world is in a state of lack, because the feminine aspect of God is in exile. And so, God, the masculine, is always yearning for the Shechina, the feminine, to reappear and assume its rightful place in the universe, unifying both male and female and bringing peace and harmony to the world. Based on this primordial duality, this separation to male and female in the spiritual realm, the film makes up the fictional characters Hechina (cast by artist Xu Tan) and Shechina (cast by Mihal Goldstein) as the male and female aspects of God. Hechina dwells in an empty building outside of the suburbs, between where the city ends and forest begins. From this special location he receives testimonies of peoples’ suffering. By the presence and grace of Shechina, he can engage in a creative act to aid people in restoring balance.

* Excerpt from press release of “Somewhere in the Center, I Created You”, Spurs Gallery, 2025.