The Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation is hosting the exhibition “Three letters. Painting. Writing. Resistance” by artist Emmanuel Bornstein until September 20, 2021.
The artist is exhibiting for the first time a series of 94 works, paintings on paper, which he designed from letters and official archival documents linked to three people, Carmen Siedlecki, his surviving grandmother of the camp of extermination of Auschwitz, Franz Kafka, the rebellious son, and Eric the lost childhood friend. He intervenes directly through collages and gouaches on facsimiles of printed or handwritten documents. Part of these documents consists in particular of official writings from the “Ministry of Prisoners, Deportees and Refugees” (1944), as well as from the “National Federation of Patriotic Deportees and Interned” (1946). Due to the health context and the closure of cultural venues, the exhibition is not open to the public. In order to bring this unique installation to life at the Departmental Museum of Resistance & Deportation, the Departmental Council asked Emmanuel Bornstein to present some of his works in 3-minute videos broadcast every two weeks on the Facebook page, the YouTube page and the community’s website from Saturday March 13 between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. The first of these broadcasts will be devoted to the work “Carmen 1945”.
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