Collective Amnesia (1991-94)
“Historical Interventions” show, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 1991
Fontanelle, curated by Christoph Tannert, Berlin, Germany, 1994
Impressions Gallery, York, UK, 1995
Mixed media Installation | Variable
This work concerned the way collective memories are forgotten and enlists the story of Anne Frank to do so. Photographs taken at the Anne Frank Archive in Amsterdam were printed and attached to aluminum boxes in various stages of decay. These were then installed in a reconstructed living room like the one the Frank family hid in during the Second War. The books featured here were books censored at that time that free people were not allowed to read but those in captivity could.