Part of ‘From the Body I Spent’
Curated by Maya Tounta
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, Latvia
February 15 - March 29, 2018 LINK
The Taste of Real Bread, 2017, 5:30 The work recounts an interview with Jewish partisan Fania Brantsovsky set against the backdrop of the partially hidden and crumbling partisan encampment in Rūdninkų Forest 40km from Vilnius. Brantsovsky narrates her perilous journey from the gates of the Vilnius ghetto to the partisan encampment in the forest which acted as a major site of resistance against the Nazi occupation. The site of the encampment and legacy of Brantsovsky have become contested in the Post-Soviet period in Lithuania as the nation struggles to confront its complicity in the genocide of Jewish and Polish nationals during WWII and grapples to consolidate an identity built on past resistance to Soviet occupation and violence.