I Often Forget is a photographic exploration of the fragile layers of time found in everyday spaces. I fastened a World War II-era lens to a newly constructed 8x10" camera and set out with black and white film capturing life today in what used to be the Vilnius Ghetto. The photographs are exhibited as hand-held objects, offering visitors an unusually intimate and tactile experience. File folders chained to pedestals and walls contain silver prints of present-day scenes paired with site-specific historical descriptions and survivor testimonies, providing a haunting remembrance of the territory where tens of thousands of Jews were forcibly held before being systematically murdered. Installations illuminate histories, conflicts, resistance, survival, confusion, and trauma as they relate to the Holocaust, historical omission, ethnic nationalism, and cultural desecration.

 

WARNING: TEXT IN THE ARTWORK CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST.