Memories in Stone: screening

Video projections introduced by Cecilia Canziani and Maya Schweizer

Films by Alexander Kluge e Peter Schamoni, Raphaël Zarka, Maya Schweizer, Deimantas Narkevičius, Artur Żmijewski, Gordon Matta-Clark, Cyprien Galliard, Johanna Billing

Today, the commemorative monument seems incapable of collectively representing history. How do we represent history, transmit memory, and give form to trauma, then? Does the monument outlive history? Does it recount it?

Articulated around two themes, the screening addresses preoccupations on the material form of memory, analyzing the relationship of contemporary artists with monuments through observation, documentation and performance as a way to rearticulate in the present the memory of historical facts that they bear testimony of.

Maya Schweizer
Le Soldat mourant des Milles, 2014,
Francia, HDV colore/suono, 13 min
Courtesy of the artist