As part of the exhibition series Speaking to Ancestors, curated by Pauline Doutreluingne & Keumhwa Kim
Opening Hours: Thu - Sun from 12 to 7 pm

Extended Program : June 27, 2023, 7 pm
Lecture by Prof. Johnny Golding followed by an Artist Talk with Shira Wachsmann
www.speakingtoancestors.de

As part of the two-year exhibition series Speaking to Ancestors, artist Shira Wachsmann is showing her solo exhibition The Moment Before in the transmediale studio and outdoor space at silent green in Berlin-Wedding.
In her work, Wachsmann explores trauma and its influence on creating knowledge production and reality. She presents trauma as a multi-temporal, non-linear network involving multiple human and non-human actors and shows how memories, fears, narratives, identity, and politics shape scars that appear in bodies and in languages as emerging landscapes. At the center of the exhibition is a video trilogy (2020-23) in which Wachsmann engages with three actors that have been and are being used to actively shape and reshape Israeli-Palestinian as well as German narratives and history: a cactus (Sabra), a tank (SabraM60T), and a “Trümmerfrauen” monument.