These pieces sprang from moments of heaviness, moments which I felt the need to, in effect, pull a screen through. To sift and congeal through collage. Most rest as sideways articulations of the cities CHID’s History, Memory, and Human Rights program spanned; of Vienna, Krakow, Berlin, Budapest, of Prague fading into winter. Others harbor more concrete foliations. Viennese marbling on a plaster ceiling, a pronounced ‘P’ for Prague adorning a streaming smokestack. As these times of chaotic novelty fade away, I hope this series will always represent (at least flashes of) a time in which we all shared a common binding. A time when we approached our own unknowns, together.
Emily Gresham Beamer is a multimedia artist and writer. She has conducted and published extensive research concerning the power of memory in the wake of state violence, particularly in regard to the use of portraiture in Argentinian human rights movements. Most of Emily’s work explores her personal life or current field research, and is greatly informed by an interest in the power of the subtle. Her work ranges graphic art, photography, radio storytelling, and social research.
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