The project "Memory Trace" which presents people who experienced persecution and repression by totalitarian regimes is an artistic extraction from the history of Poland forgotten faces of people destroyed by totalitarian systems.

The project consists of three parts - these are exiles to Siberia, Poles deported to the Third Reich for forced labour and political prisoners of the Stalinist period in People's Poland - young people from the Union of the White Shield and the Huragan organization who in the 1950s, were tortured in the Voivodeship Security Office at Anstadta 7 in Łódź. Izabela Łapińska spent many hours with each of the characters, talking and recording their memories, and then photographing their faces in the convention of police photographs, as criminals holding their own handwritten name and surname. These are black and white studio portraits made in prison style, full face and in profile. Professor Łapińska transcribed the recorded memories/testimonies, and then invited children to collaborate to read the stories which she recorded again.

More information on the project: www.sladpamieciowy.pl

We invite you to the exhibition opening which will take place on 26th September, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the PIASA Gallery (The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America).

The exhibition will be on until 16, October.