Forthcoming Exhibitions
Mine the Mountain (3) |
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From the North Wall website: Nicholas Hedges’ large photographic installations are concerned with history - but he interprets history not as a series of distant events that are dead and buried, but a collection of encounters and dialogues between the past and the present that are very much a part of now. By exploring family history, memories and the private histories of individuals unknown, Nicholas Hedges’ work mostly draws on experiences at sites of historic trauma: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec and Majdanek, Ypres and Verdun. His work examines the needs of those that feel compelled to visit these sites of mass destruction - sometimes called ’dark tourists’ - and his own needs to connect with his ancestry after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2006. |
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