The contemporary art exhibition, titled "Tanais: History as Trauma Management", unfolds around the tragic story of the sinking of the Tanais during which the Jewish community of Crete, members of the local resistance and Italian prisoners of war lost their lives on June 9, 1944.
On the afternoon of Thursday 1.8.2024, the exhibition opened its doors at the former Archaeological Museum of Chania, with works by seven distinguished artists.
"They are seven artists who in a very gentle way commemorate the people who left so ingloriously, but they also give hope because with the use of art the mind is allowed to take a breather from this sadness. You will see works that do not have visual crowns. They sit quietly in the space and all they ask of you is your time," said, among other things, the Myrto Kontomitakis, museologist and curator of the exhibition. (video HERE)
This year is a year of remembrance, it is the 80th anniversary of the death of the Jews of Crete. But it is not only for Crete, because that year we had the annihilation of other communities in the rest of the Western world. We thought of having an exhibition because memory is not cultivated only by history", pointed out, among other things, the president of the Board of Directors. of the Etz Hayim Synagogue, Vasiliki Giakoumaki. (video HERE)
“I present the ship Tanais as I felt it when I read its history. It is intangible, spectral. It is an empty ship and its portholes are joined only by a shadow of ash. It is a reference to crematoria and on the ashes it is as if the hands of people who have drowned come out, either as a call for help, or as a last contact with life", she explained about the work exhibited by the visual artist, Lamprini Boviatsou. (video HERE)
"I present with a video a story, where a woman wraps a letter and puts inside the symbol of Chania, the jasmine. With Tanais you connect with the part of remembrance, of remembering something", said the artist, Aliki Chiotakis. (video HERE)
The exhibition will be open to the public daily, between 12pm and 8pm. (except Tuesday) until August 15, 2024.
The exhibition is organized by the Yitzchaim Synagogue of Chania, as part of the anniversary events for the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the Tanais ship. Participating artists: Lamprini Boviatsou, Aliki Chiotakis, Konstantin Fischer, Jason Francisco, Milan Logar, George Sfougaras, Joshua Unikel. Editor: Myrto Kontomitakis.
SOURCE: ZARPANEWS.GR, 2.8.2024
