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Norma Copa Schenke

TRACES OF MEMORY

 

Praxis, Pott St., Bethnall Green, London E2 0EF

23 August - 3 September 1999

Private view 25 August 1999, 6pm-9pm

 
 With the support of

 

Lipman-Miliband Trust
Amnesty International
Kodak Ltd.
Praxis

 

Traces of Memory is a vast photographic installation about the 'disappeared' in Latin America. It consists of about fifty images printed on glass. They highlight the frailty of life and evoke memory - photographs are the only remaining evidence of an existence which is no longer there.

The questions, "Are you alive?", "Are you dead?" echo throughout Norma Schenke's haunting installation. The work invites the viewer to walk around while images of everyday life are projected onto a circle of thin cloth screens. It engages the audience in an uneasy experience in which a series of opposites emerge; life-death, presence-absence, loss and hope.

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