Public Artwork
(un)coverings
Location:
Old Market Square and the Floating Gallery, 314-63 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 3B2, Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Neumark, Devora
Text author(s):
Neumark, Devora
Installation year:
1995 Description:
Photographic installation placed on the grass
Text of the artwork:
who controls the silence?
[plaque]
somehow I learned to
separate the experience
from the feeling: this way
I wouldn't be present
when the bad stuff
happened.
I'm still trying to put
myself back together
and so
I mourn.
[diptych]
living with the memories the
terror guilt shame pain hurt
ever present (even if they
now say they're sorry)
what truths must I tell my children?
[plaque]
when I was little, my father told me
that each person is given a certain
number of words to use during their
life. when the words are used up, the
person dies. I remember counting each
word I spoke, afraid I would die young.
I promised I wouldn't do that to my daughter.
Artwork theme:
Child (sexual) abuse, trauma, memory
History:
Event: Light Year: A Festival of Photographies
Date: Sept. 30-Oct. 28, 1995
Event date(s):
1995
Artist's biography:
Devora Neumark Document(s):
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