该装置是在巴布亚尔大屠杀纪念馆发展的框架内设计的，其目的是重建对1941年9月29日至30日在该地区发生的悲惨事件的记忆，这是纳粹政权的最大屠杀。在那些日子里，超过30.000名犹太人被德国军队杀害，而几乎没有留下任何文件。巴宾亚尔基金会致力于将这一记忆带回来，并强调每个受害者的生命的重要性。
The installation was designed within the framework of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial development, which aims to rebuild the memories of the tragic events that happened in the area on September 29-30, 1941, the largest massacre of the Nazi regime. During those days, over 30.000 Jews were murdered by the German forces, while almost no documentation was left behind. The Babyn Yar Foundation works to bring that memory back and highlight the importance of every victim’s life.
“镜场 “视听装置的核心元素是 “生命之树 “的象征，它存在于世界大多数宗教和神话中。巴宾亚尔悲剧表明这棵树是多么容易被摧毁，它的树枝也会被折断。
The core element of the Mirror Field audio-visual installation is the symbol of the Tree of Life, which is found in most religions and mythologies of the world. The Babyn Yar tragedy shows how easily this tree can be destroyed, and its branches — broken.
该结构完全由不锈钢制成，其特点是讲台是一个直径约40米的镜面圆盘，上面安装有10根6米高的柱子。这些柱子和圆盘被纳粹在巴布亚尔处决时使用的相同口径的子弹射穿。
Made entirely of stainless steel, the structure features a podium is in the form of a mirror disk with a diameter of about 40 meters, with 10 6-meter-high columns installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.
该装置24小时都可以使用。白天，天空倒映在其中。到了晚上，记忆的光线和声音穿过弹孔，而柱子顶部的光线照亮了天空。
The installation is available around the clock. During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, light and sounds of memory pass through the bullet holes, while rays from the tops of the columns illuminate the sky.
一个由24个管子组成的电声管风琴被建在讲台上。专门为这个管风琴开发了一种将受害者的名字翻译成声音的算法。希伯来语字母表中的每个字母都被分配了自己的数字。根据gematria原则，遇难者的名字被翻译成数字，而这些数字又设定了声音的音调。名字数字的音频波的组合形成了一个声音组合。主背景叠加了战前基辅的档案记录，由乌克兰国家科学院信息记录研究所修复的以V. Vernadsky命名的国家图书馆收藏的20世纪20年代和30年代的独特意第绪歌曲。此外，还表演了合唱和基督教纪念音乐、乌克兰和罗姆人纪念歌曲以及当代乌克兰作曲家的作品。
An electroacoustic pipe organ of 24 pipes is built into the podium. An algorithm for translating the names of the victims into sound was developed specifically for this pipe organ. Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet was assigned its own number. According to the gematria principle, the names of the victims have been translated into numbers, which, in turn, set the pitch of the sound. The combination of audio waves of the name numbers creates a sound composition. The main background is overlaid with archival recordings of pre-war Kyiv, unique Yiddish songs of the 1920s and 1930s from the collections of the National Library named after V. Vernadsky restored by the Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Choral and Memorial Christian music, Ukrainian and Roma Memorial songs, works by contemporary Ukrainian composers are performed as well.
Architects: Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Area: 1134 m²
Year: 2020
Lead Architects: Maxym Demidenko-Rayzman, Denis Shabanov
Co Authors:Daniel Meir, Nick Akorn, Sergei Krutsenko, Anton Baikov, Izhak Helfgot, Yanki Lemmer, Adam Sheflen, Noam Enbar, Maya Dunits
Produser:Oleksiy Makukhin
Production Team:Arina Galanseva, Igor Makhankov, Nadia Pozharska, Vitaliy Lusher, Alexander Laptev
City:Kyiv
Country:Ukraine