Info su Catrina Zanirato

Nel mio lavoro, il luogo diventa soggetto narrante, silenzioso e apparentemente statico, suggerisce racconti sopiti; racconti gioiosi di tempi passati, esperienze legate all’emozione di un momento, alla fruizione stessa ed istantanea. Il luogo racconta di storie vissute, vissute sul piano del reale che si interseca con il sentimento, con ...

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Breathless
Quand il y a un oiseau qui chante, il ne pleut plus dans mon coeur

memories - 2010
2' DVD Courtesy dell'artista

Auschwitz’s victims were mothers, fathers, friends, sons, daughters …, all the victims had a different role and identity. Cutting victim’s hairs Nazis erased the reality, they created a new reality where anonymous prisoners were initially obliged to hard work and than killed. Hairs whether they lie down in a bag or strongly grow on our head have a charismatic power, they show to the other who we are, they speak-up, they denounce, it is impossible to erase their witnesses. During the performance, in front of a table where there are different kinds of hairs, I sew on white tissue the sentence “ARBEIT MACHT FREI”, this sentence was at the entrance of Auschwitz concentration camp. The sewing is made by using my hairs that I tear and use one by one any time I need. My hair in this case is given spontaneously, “sacrificed” as it was a witness of something that cannot be forgotten, something that someone, also today wants to deny. At the end of the performance I will leave a tissue sewed with my hairs, a meticulous handcraft of memories, a sign that cannot be deleted, a witness of something that could never be forgotten by the entire mankind.