Patricia Klich is a visual artist, mainly working in the field of photography and video. She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland.
Her book entitled Special Treatment function as a deconstruction of Wanda Jakubowska’s narrative film, The Last Stage, which was made in Auschwitz in 1946. The film explores the experience of the camp from a female perspective, through a number of key characters. Using stills and image fragments, the photobook is a commentary on images, their use and their power to tell a story, while emphasizing the distorting aspect of fictional representation.
Book is part of installation consisting of a number of related works that results from a deep meditation on the enduring presence of a historically contested site: the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. An important part of historical record is the relationship between the material remains and what can be understood. This work focuses on modes and practices of re-presentation in order to attempt to represent that which persists: forms of memory, the activity of witnessing and the relationship between absence and presence.
Book’s profile on: Indiegogo
The installation you can watch: HERE
Official website of author: Patricia Klich
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