For three years, Dr. Roma Sendyka, Dr. Erica Lehrer, curator Magdalena Zych, and photographer Wojciech Wilczyk have researched representations of the Holocaust in Polish folk art. Their work culminated in an exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust, which was on display from December 2018 to March 2019. Join the curators for a presentation about these uncanny, baffling, and at times deeply empathic works of art.
In December 2018, anthropologists Roma Sendyka, Erica Lehrer, and Magdalena Zych, and photographer Wojciech Wilczyk opened their exhibition Terribly Close. Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust, the result of three years of researching representations of the Holocaust in Polish folk art. Join them for a preview of their forthcoming book and a presentation about these uncanning, bafflying, and at times deeply empathic works of art.
Event will be in English and Polish, with simultaneous translation. Free admission.
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Partners
The event is co-organizded with Galicia Jewish Museum.
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FestivALT 2019 was made possible thanks to the financial support of: Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund, Asylum Arts, Hummus Amamamusi, European Jewish Fund.
