Exhibition "Voices". November 8 at 18.00 the finish of the exhibition "Voices" and the discussion "Beyond Memory"

Today we can observe a turn in cultural memorial practice, when the categories of guilt and responsibility begin to play a special role, the opportunity to talk about “what should be kept silent”. Injury, silence and oblivion, which are various forms of memory and its blocking, can be passed on from generation to generation.

The exhibition “Voices”, dedicated to the commemoration of the victims of Stalinist repressions, returns the right to vote to all victims of unjust violence and terror. The work of artists of different generations, camp artifacts, and the work of the artist Mikhail Rudakov, who passed the Gulag from the Memorial collection, brought together the historical distance, translating the unconscious elements of trauma into conscious forms of memory. Memories transferred to cultural memory open up the possibility of communication between generations located on opposite sides of the barricade of history.

Painters:

Julia Abzaltdinova
Ekaterina Garkushko
Sergey Garkushko
Yuri Zlotnikov Oleg Koshelets
Alexander Kutovoy
Ekaterina Muromtseva
Maria Poluektova
Mikhail Rudakov
Vera Smolina
Chaim Sokol
Marina Fomenko
Igor Shelkovsky
Alexander Elmar
u / n multitude

On November 8, at 18.00, within the framework of the finish of the “Voices” exhibition, Gallery A3 will host an excursion with curator Konyushikhina Elena and a discussion “Beyond Memory” with the participation of graduate students and students of the philosophical and historical faculties of Moscow State University, the Higher School of Economics and the Russian State Humanitarian University, employees of the International Memorial. The focus is on the ability to remember “outside” (Yevgeny Bykov), discursive strategies of collective trauma (Sergey Kirillov), experience of collective experience in Russian history of the 19th-20th centuries (Pavel Gnilorybov), memory of the Holocaust (Amalia Prtavyan), generation gap - grandchildren about the involvement of relatives in the repressive policy of Stalin on the example of the documentary play “The Second Act. Grandchildren ”(Alexandra Polivanova), censorship: a ban on freedom of thought in Soviet philosophy and its echoes in the post-Stalin era (Maria Menshikova).

Is memory a social construct? How is historical memory and identity formed? How, despite the factual inaccessibility of the past, are memories of a traumatic experience possible?

Pavel Gnilorybov is a Moscow historian, coordinator of the Mospeshkom project, author of the books Comprehension of Moscow and Post-Reform Moscow.

Sergey Kirillov - graduate student, Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University, teacher.

Maria Menshikova is a student of the philosophical faculty of Moscow State University, an employee of the International Memorial.

Alexandra Polivanova - curator of the project “Topography of Terror” (“International Memorial”), co-author of the project “Second Act. Grandchildren. "

Amalia Prtavyan - Master of Philosophy, graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University and RSUH. His research interests are Jewish thinkers’ understanding of the Holocaust experience, collective memory.