Repozytorium publikacji - Politechnika Gdańska

As the generation of witnesses is passing away and the testimonies of Shoah survivors are replaced by an inherited, culturally constructed memory - post-memory – art becomes a meaningful landmark in the landscape of memory. Although the narration of history - being the researchers’ discourse rather than an objective view - has been considered to a certain extent fictitious, the difference between real and fictional, between remembering and creating, becomes today - at the end of the era of eyewitnesses - more and more vague. Thus, art work should take on the role of a vicarious witness to a greater degree than previously. A special duty of art is to restore a discarded memory - such as the memory of the pogroms against the Jews in 1941 in North-Eastern Poland. Only in a few of the dozens of towns where pogroms occurred have memorials been built, and even fewer are inhabited by communities who are prepared to accept a difficult memory. The text is an attempt to define the role of art in the recognition of difficult issues of memory and the potential role of art as a testimony in a changing social context. The works of artists who deal with the subject of memory and social trauma and the role of art in restoring memory are also discussed.

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• dr inż. arch. Joanna Kabrońska link otwiera się w nowej karcie