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| Exhibition "Return - Traces of Memory", Lisbon |
A few weeks ago I read
Lily Hyde’s text Living Memory II, questioning the
construction of narratives out of recent historical events. In this case, the
armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine and specifically in the town of Slavyansk. A
bit more than a year before, Hyde had talked to the Slavyansk Museum director, Lilya
Zander, who was already collecting Trophies from an incomprehensible war. At that time, the museum director had said that “Our job is to tell the history of our
region”, adding that “the museum is not trying to show ‘for’ and ‘against’. We’re
trying to show the facts.”