Contemporary Jewish Museum (Venue Partner)
736 Mission St
415.655.7800
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From the project Notre Combat by Linda Ellia; one of six hundred works on paper by various artists; 8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches; Paris, France; 2007. Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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Feb 11, 2010 – June 15, 2010
Mondays–Tuesdays (2:30–5pm)
Thursdays (6–8pm)
Fridays–Sundays (2:30–5pm)
- Where
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Directions: 736 Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
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$10 Adults; $8 Seniors and Students over 18 with ID; Free for Youth 18 and under and Members, $5 after 5 PM on Thursdays
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“When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion, and communal engagement with an off-limits topic — in the infamous and much-reviled tome. She handed out pages to people around the world and challenged them to respond directly on the paper. The resulting 600 altered pages, collected in Our Struggle, testify to the power of creativity to engage with the unspeakable, the fact that history is alive, and that it must never be forgotten.”
Caitlin Kingsley, Flavorpill
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The book's weight in her hands embodied the heaviness of the Holocaust; she felt compelled to respond. After personally altering a number of the pages to express her anger, she invited hundreds of people from all over the world to paint, draw, sculpt, and collage directly on the pages of the book. On view in the exhibition are 600 of these altered pages from a multitude of participants from artists, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, victims, students, and Jews from as many as 17 different countries. The hundreds of pages in the exhibition offer a remarkable display of different artistic styles and present a multiplicity of voices and perspectives ranging from angry to mournful to hopeful.
