Unlearning Inherited Histories or Introducing Entangled Memories from the Baltics

IF 0.7 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Baltic Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI:10.1080/01629778.2023.2216187

U. Gerhardt

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ABSTRACT This exhibition review discusses the past exhibition Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds (2022) at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. The project tried to shed light on the shared impact that long-silenced traumas and counter-memories have on the Baltic region, especially from a transnational perspective. A special focus lies on the oscillations between individual memory and public history as the exhibition participants engage in the creation of so-called ‘artistic historiographies’ based on unexplored and unknown memories by minorities and women. The displayed artworks are experimentally trying to provoke a process of ‘unlearning inherited histories’ by developing multifocal viewpoints and interpretations, an ongoing process the text accompanies. Navigating through the exhibitions’ conceptual threads, artistic manifestations, and ways of storytelling, the review introduces a generation of artists that is bonded to difficult and therefore challenging historical events from the 20th century, from the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine to the Dąbroszczacy soldiers and autofictional lesbian literature.

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解读继承的历史或引入波罗的海国家的纠缠记忆

本次展览回顾了过去的展览“艰难的过去”。连接的世界(2022)，立陶宛维尔纽斯国家美术馆。该项目试图揭示长期沉默的创伤和反记忆对波罗的海地区的共同影响，特别是从跨国角度来看。特别关注的是个人记忆和公共历史之间的振荡，因为展览参与者参与了所谓的“艺术史学”的创作，这些创作基于少数民族和女性未被探索和未知的记忆。展出的艺术作品实验性地试图通过发展多焦点的观点和解释来引发一个“忘却继承的历史”的过程，这是一个持续的过程。通过展览的概念线索、艺术表现形式和讲故事的方式，这篇评论介绍了一代艺术家，他们与20世纪困难的、因此具有挑战性的历史事件联系在一起，从苏联乌克兰的大萧条到Dąbroszczacy士兵和自虚构的女同性恋文学。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Baltic Studies, the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal for the purpose of advancing the accumulation of knowledge about all aspects of the Baltic Sea region"s political, social, economic, and cultural life, past and present. Preference is given to original contributions that are of general scholarly interest. The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is an international, educational, and scholarly non-profit organization. Established in 1968, the purpose of the Association is the promotion of research and education in Baltic Studies.