how does memory change?

Viale Druso 299

Elda Ergulec

Viale Druso 299 is a loop video made out of clips of the bolzano train station. it shows a sunny and calm day. everything seems firm, except for the wind and the arrival of a train. I found this calmness obscenely contrasting with its past history: one of terror, deportation, and torture. I am used to taking the Bologna-Brennero line, as it connects Verona to Bolzano, and every time i take the train i notice the beautiful landscape transforming from pianura padana to the alps. this is a topic that Primo Levi wrote about on his memoir about his deportation to Auschwitz. places don’t seem to remember where human tragedies took place.

The clips were projected onto a white bedsheet hung in the student dorm terrace, in viale druso 299.

 

A project made in the course

Studio Exhibit | Yesterday Tomorrow: Memory in Art

As a first assignment, the students were asked to “inhabit” the work of one of the artists who participated in the exhibition “tell me about yesterday tomorrow”. Starting from there, they should acquire tools to develop their own work. In the second assignment, following the historical perspective introduced by the very same exhibition, they should develop a personal work dealing with the topic of “memory”. The supporting modules provided the students with historical and theoretical insight on the topic of the studio, and offered technical tools to exhibit the resulting works online.
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