we are here
"An exploration of contemporary portraiture as a response to hatred and hope."
My photographic series from the Resistance Through Art was selected for inclusion in We Are Here, an exhibition
curated by Dr. Helen Light and hosted by the Glen Eira Council Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.. MAY 2016.
curated by Dr. Helen Light and hosted by the Glen Eira Council Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.. MAY 2016.
Dedicated to my mother Miriam Unreich née Blumenstock
ARTIST STATEMENT
I don’t remember when I became consciously aware of my mother’s Holocaust experience; it was more like a forbidding presence – often unspoken yet very much a part of my formative psyche. Even before I could truly grasp the horrors which she endured, a sensory transference of sorts had already been transmitted through my DNA, and deep into my core.
It was only much later in life that I came across the term ‘Second Generation Holocaust Survivor’, and that is when I fully understood the intractable shadow that the Holocaust has cast over future generations.
In this photographic series, my mother’s concentration camp number is etched on my soul as surely as if it were tattooed onto my own skin and will continue to cast an ominous shadow on her progeny.
Never again.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I don’t remember when I became consciously aware of my mother’s Holocaust experience; it was more like a forbidding presence – often unspoken yet very much a part of my formative psyche. Even before I could truly grasp the horrors which she endured, a sensory transference of sorts had already been transmitted through my DNA, and deep into my core.
It was only much later in life that I came across the term ‘Second Generation Holocaust Survivor’, and that is when I fully understood the intractable shadow that the Holocaust has cast over future generations.
In this photographic series, my mother’s concentration camp number is etched on my soul as surely as if it were tattooed onto my own skin and will continue to cast an ominous shadow on her progeny.
Never again.
