Disturbingly familiar by giselle beiguelman published on 2016-10-10T03:23:33Z A visual and textual diary of my first trip to Poland, from where my grandparents fled to Brazil after World War I. The piece comprises a sound installation and 16 postcards, which come together to recount my travel experience through images, first-person accounts and quotes from authors including Hal Foster, Andreas Huyssen, and Vilém Flusser. Part of the multimedia installation How heavy is a cloud by Giselle Beiguelman. http://desvirtual.com/pl/ These leftovers of a memory told feature elements that reveal, through juxtaposition and free association, tacit associations between assorted topics, such the concealment of memory through the monetization of design and the impossibility to produce ruins in the 20th century, thereby situating viewers amid debris and reflections on the opacity of the fog. The piece documents the tension between the managing of memory and the politics of oblivion, between situations of belonging and cultural exclusion. Genre Storytelling
