Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project
17/11/2008 11:48
Susan Hiller, The J. Street Project (Index), (detail: Coburg, Judenberg) 2002-2005, wall-based installation: 303 archival colour inkjets mounted on Kapaline, oak frames, index and map in adhesive vinyl, two walls, each approx. 394 x 78 in. / 1000 x 197 cm; dimensions variable, edition of 3 (+ 2AP). © Susan Hiller; Courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
Finding and photographing every street in Germany with the prefix Juden (Jews) in its name: this was the task that the London-based, American-born artist Susan Hiller set for herself in 2002 after a chance encounter with a street sign reading “Judenstrasse” (“Jews’ Street”) in Berlin. She found the sign strangely ambiguous. It was meant to commemorate the Jewish community that once inhabited the area, but for Hiller it marked a history of discrimination, segregation and violence. She subsequently discovered that there were many streets throughout Germany containing the prefix Juden. “The Jews are gone,” Susan Hiller has said, “but the street names remain as ghosts of the past, haunting the present.” (ganzer Text über die Ausstellung HIER).
Noch bis 1. Februar 2009 zu sehen:
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, New York 10128
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