Living Memory: Photographic Exhibition and Slideshow, Reception with the artist
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Produced during the summer of 2020, the Living Memory project showcases artist Catrine Val’s poignant and astonishing photographic portraits of London’s Jewish community. The project was produced during the profound dislocation caused by the pandemic and as the Holocaust begins to slip slowly from ‘living memory’.
Val’s unique photographic portraits feature Holocaust survivors and those whose parents arrived as part of the ‘Kindertransport’, as well as Jewish families from all over the world who have made London their home. They will be shown at the Library from the 19 – 23 June, marking Refugee Week.
The project has personal resonance for Val, who is engaged in an ongoing process of seeking context and greater understanding of her own German-Jewish heritage, a history which she has only recently been able to acknowledge and engage with.
Living Memory is part of Migration: a public history festival, a series of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and walks around London, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. The exhibition will be shown alongside the Wiener Library’s Holocaust Letters exhibition. This event will be held in the exhibition space with a chance to see the project in person.
Contact name:
Katy Pettit