Photographic exhibition on Vasilissis Olgas Street in memory of the victims of The Holocaust
The opening of the double outdoor photo exhibition in memory of the victims of The Holocaust was conducted by the Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, and the President of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Makis Matsas.
The two exhibitions on Vasilissis Olgas Street, “The Holocaust of Greek Jews 1941–1944” and “Trauma as Memory and Life” are organized by the Municipality of Athens in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece and artist Artemis Alkalai, as well as with the curation and coordination of the municipality’s Office of Culture.
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is commemorated every year on January 27, the Municipality of Athens is once again sending a strong message of “Never Again” through these two exhibitions, so that humanity will never again experience such atrocities.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by, among others, the Ambassador of Israel Mr. Noam Kats, the President of the Parliamentary Group for Friendship between Greece and Israel, Dimitris Kairidis and Vice President Olga Kefalogianni, the Representative of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, Daniel Benardout, the President of the Jewish Community of Athens, Albertos Taraboulous, the Director of the Community, Tally Mair and the Director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Zanet Battinou.
Information about the double exhibition
“The Holocaust of Greek Jews 1941 – 1944”
The exhibition depicts moments from the life of the Greek Jewish communities before and during the Second World War. In the photographic material of the exhibition, which comes entirely from the Archive of the Jewish Museum of Greece, visitors see happy family moments, photographs of weddings, professionals, students, photographs of neighbourhoods and places of prayer, which unfold the lives of people who were displaced or lost forever.
“Trauma as Memory and Life”
In Artemis Alcalay’s photography exhibition, the artist raises issues of freedom and memory, loss and trauma, from a visual perspective. The red tangle of memory unravels and connects past, present and future. Thought travels to the before and after, the beautiful and the difficult, the inseparable. Ms. Alkalay approaches the theme and memory of the Holocaust using the materials of cottage industry and small crafts. Fabric, canvas, paper, thread, wood and glue play a leading role and determine the material substance as well as the content of her work. With roots in history and faith in Greek cultural tradition, she borrows techniques that she transmutes into a contemporary, personal artistic idiom.
The exhibition run until the end of March.
Photos: Municipality of Athens.
Source: CNN GREECE
