by Lisa Borgiani
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, is photographed and interpreted through a present day lens.
A Field of Stelae, creating a labyrinth of concrete blocks, exemplifies the profound anguish cemented in the memory of the Jews massacred by the Nazi regime.
The photo painting installation by Lisa Borgiani, presented at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC on the occasion of Remembrance Day 2014, is a series of colored images shot sequentially amidst 2711 grey slabs evoking the headstones of murdered Jews.
The succession of each soft image symbolizes quick meetings and encounters between people pursuing their own paths in a moment that is timeless and in a place without an entrance or exit (sense of being lost), which evokes a disturbing sense of the Nazi regime’s unyealding control through the rippling motion of an uneven pavement disrupting the solid structure.
The disorienting effect through the camera lens is intended. The visitor is alone, facing the memory of the genocide in a ephemeral place.
EXHIBIT CATALOG
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Lisa Borgiani: Biography
Photopaintings: Here Time Has No Time
Under the Patronage of
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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