My Very Personal Childhood

2013

“... There is possibly nothing more frightening and uncanny about our personal histories as our mnemonics. We engrave something, so that it stays in our memory: we remember the things that never stop hurting.”

Dietmar Kamper: Zeichen als Narben. From the catalogue essay: “Elementarzeichen”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.1985, p. 163 


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"This dialogue from the publication, als die Soldaten Schäfer waren (when the soldiers were shepards) was written by FRANEK, who was literally born in that war...

Seventy years after it was over she raises the questions, “Is there a relationship between my childhood and my art?” All of these works are a cryptic commentary on my childhood..."

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