Time and Again

The exhibition »Time and Again« features four autobiographical narratives shaped by political decisions, social power relations, and historical upheavals. Confronting family memories, the research takes the photographers back to places of their past; they document traces left behind by violence, oppression, and social injustice. The results are multi faceted projects that not only tell personal stories, but also address the consequences of power and systemic violence that have left their traces in private lives.

In »Motherland hears, Motherland knows«, Dasha Karetnikova travels with her father to the cities and places in Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Russia where he lived and worked after his birth in a Russian gulag. In »Mein ferner Osten« Fungi Phuong Tran Minh investigates her childhood as the daughter of Vietnamese contract workers in the former GDR, combining photographs with texts about her experiences with exclusion and racism. In search of truth and justice, Eugenia Maximova reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the murder of her sister-in-law, a Bulgarian journalist who was a critical of the government, in »Silent River«. In her work »Why being quiet is so loud«, Nastassja Nefjodov shows the effects of trauma on personal relationships, focusing on her partner, who is burdened by his experiences in the Croatian War.