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Anima*
This exhibition not only includes the contemporary artistic expressions already known in Susi Sielski Cantarino’s work, where dialogue and contrast address the question of memory, but we will also for the first time be exhibiting documents and objects of Mr. Ferdinand Levi, a survivor of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp.
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One of the objects of documentary value that we will be showing is the iron cross awarded to First World War heroes, contrasting with the yellow star of David that the Jews were forced to wear on their chest for identification. A star lined on the inside with flowers by my grandfather Ferdinand … for him alone and his poetic spirit. |
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Vati kept self-made maps in the camp, the fabric label of the deportation suitcase, money, food vouchers, letters and other items. My grandfather transcribed some of his thoughts during his four years of captivity in the camp in his wonderful handwriting, so remindful of a medieval manuscript. |
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I feel that my grandfather believed that everything has its good side and that somehow the personal and collective memory eventually transcends through words... It is only in recent years that I understood how this great man influenced my work. |
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I am honoured and privileged to be able to dedicate this exhibition to my grandfather Vati and to all those who lost their freedom, lives, dreams... the right to choose... yesterday, today and forever! |
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I feel, as a member of the human race, that, besides every label given us since our birth and accumulated throughout our lives (in my case… Argentinean, German, Brazilian, Jewish...) we are all the same. Some of us are Teresas of Calcutta, some… mercenaries, others inquisitors, and others rapists of tsunami survivors… regardless of the people or region to which we belong. |
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Despite the tragic consequences of the purism of the Nazi utopia, unleashing never-ending racism, some Germans even today bear a guilt that is no longer theirs... nor of their parents. That is why my exhibition ANIMA is not inspired by negative feelings and rancour or intends to conspire against an ideology... it bursts from the depths of my *soul, from Love, Revolt, Injustice, Impotence, and a cry for Freedom!. |
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*Anima
"The soul. In the theory of Jung, the female component of every human being’s personality. Part of the psyche in touch with the unconscious. Individual unconsciousness separate from the environment" |
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Meus agradecimentos aos patrocinadores:
Hydri e Multishopping |
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Susi Cantarino , Rio de Janeiro, novembro de 2005 |
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