Graphic Design: Pálhegyi Flóra, designed artwork: Szemző Zsófia

In the educational series of JC2028 and within the framework of the Marom20 festival, an organized guided tour took place with the curator of the Witnesses exhibition, Zsófia Farkas on July 20, 2021.

About the exhibition

WITNESSES - TRAUMA REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HUNGARIAN JEWISH MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES

The representation or representability of the Holocaust has always been a sensitive and much-debated issue in literature or in the visual arts. The point of view of eyewitnesses, the documentation of what they have seen is the key to understanding and interpreting the Holocaust. In the Hungarian visual arts, the presentation of the Holocaust appeared with a delay and was often only obscured. Therefore, it is important to get to know the hidden works made during the Holocaust or immediately after the liberation. Aware of the importance of the role of eyewitnesses, they present what happened in the ghetto, the labor service, and the camps through narrated or often subtitled series of drawings. The exhibition seeks answers to questions about what it means to witness, whether the event-like depiction of personal stories can become a therapy, and how the combined use of image and writing helps a deeper understanding of memories through the combined use of image and writing.

Exhibited artists:
Ervin Abádi, Miklós Adler, Ernő Barta, Edit Bán Kiss, Edit Fekete, Ilka Gedő, Gitta Gyenes, Tibor Jankai (Jankay), Alfréd Lakos, Ágnes Lukács, Ferenc Reichental, Shraga Weil, Maria Turán Hacker, Géza Vörös

curator: Zsófia Farkas
art historian, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

original grahpic: Zsófi Szemző
The exhibition is open between 14 July and 17 August of 2021, M–F, 2–6 pm