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Joanna RAJKOWSKA, <My father never touched me like that>, Video, 10" 52', 2014
Joanna RAJKOWSKA My father never touched me like that
Joanna Rajkowska’s video work <My Father Never Touched Me Like That> is a description which focuses on the broken relationship between a father and his daughter. The artist asked her father to caress her face, but that was probably the first and the last request she made. Her father lived a life on the run ever since his first escape from being sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War 2 to the moment he left his family and his wife. He was never there to change the diapers of his little baby, attend her elementary school entrance ceremony, or even when she was hospitalized due to blood poisoning. He went so far as to ignore his own name his wife called on the path to her death. By removing a layer of memories lying under the surface of daily life in her work, the artist gently caresses wounds of the past that we all have. |
