Forgotten Force: Art and Memory | Exhibition

Online Exhibition Space Online

Event Date: End 2021-04-01 00:00 ~ 2022-04-01 23:59

Project Key : #memory, #Exhibition, #Drawing Painting

https://wyszomirska-noga.com/
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Refugees, mixed media.

Forgotten Force: Art and Memory | Exhibition

Online Exhibition Space Online

Event Date: End 2021-04-01 00:00 ~ 2022-04-01 23:59

Project Key : #memory, #Exhibition, #Drawing Painting

https://wyszomirska-noga.com/
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Online Exhibition

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As a part of the project we gathered stories of six women who told us about their experience of war, lives as refugees and new home in England. To help bring these stories to life we invited a London based artist and art conservator, Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga, to interpret the assembled tales and translate them to image.

Women’s contribution to society, often overlooked, was paradoxically made more visible by wars usually perceived as a masculine domain. Once they left the confinements of domesticity, women became increasingly involved in struggle for freedom on the fronts of all wars, but they also kept protecting their families on home fronts. Blurring the lines of gender divisions, the unsung heroes served wherever required from hospitals and driving ambulances to serving in kitchens and shedding blood in trenches.

At the root of our project was a will to celebrate the lives of our heroines and memory of thousands of those who were long forgotten. Due to the living history aspect the project was, and is, of utmost urgency. We believe that the stories we tell are universal and will help to piece together missing parts of wartime narrative and secure it for the future. The aim of this multimedia project was first and foremost to give voice to those who feel underrepresented in history, but also to create a resource to support research into women, refugees and war.

Accepted 2021-09-26 10:45

*This program is subject to change by the Organizer's reasons, so please refer to the website or the Organizer's notice for more information.
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Activity Area : Local/Town Space

Contacts/Email : Forgotten Force is an oral history project by the Piłsudski Institute of London giving first-hand evidence of the past by audio and video recording stories of Polish women survivors of the Second World War who have been residing in the UK for the past seventy years...

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