LET THIS DEAD PHOTOGRAPH REMIND YOU OF ME ALIVE

 

2021-ongoing

The project deals with the stages of Polish war memory, especially with the reenactment of World War II in Poland. The inspiration for this work is the story of my grandmother, who ran away from home at the age of 17 to fight in World War II. She sent her mother a photograph from the front in 1945. On the back it was written: „let this dead photograph remind you of me alive“.

The project's procedure consists of taking analog black-and-white photographs, which in the next step are recolored. On the one hand, this fulfills the experience longed for by the many reenactment participants of "bringing to life" the old black-and-white war photographs. At the same time, on the basis of the colorization work, patterns of war memory are exposed.

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