Contemporary Jewish Museum (Venue Partner)
736 Mission St
415.655.7800
This event has passed.
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Linda Ellia, Notre Combat, 2007, Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- When
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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.
- Price
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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
- Links
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.
