From 9-18 February 2024 a consortium of Dresden cultural institutions (Weltoffenes Dresden or WOD) have put on a joint ‘banner art project’ – these are public displays of art dotted around the city centre.
The initiative is in remembrance of the destruction of Dresden (13-15 February 1945) in the second world war, and falls under the general idea that what we do today shapes democratic and humanitarian values in the future. Most of the work on show were originally produced as photos, but there is also at least one photo of an artefact – a particular striking tapestry – and a ‘peep hole’ installion.
Rather than reproduce the images here go to the Facebook page or better the web site if you want to know more. On the site just click on the image itself to get the detail (this at least for me was not obvious!). I was drawn to the photograph ‘Thrown in to cold waters’ by Alegra Nicka and Ina Weise which was taken in Brazzaville in Congo – one of Dresden’s 13 twinned cities.
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