Video, 11:15 min. Link https://youtu.be/E0VoAc5WFJ0
The work attempts to bridge the gap between collective remembering and intimate family history. It evolved after a visit to Silute, Lithuania, where my grandmother was born, and fled from during the second world war, by walking the distance of 1200km to Düsseldorf, Germany. The work tries to reach into the parts of my family I don’t know about, especially the character of my great-grandmother, whom I have never met and who never talked about her past. At the same time it tries to fill in the blanks about their connection to historic events during the second world war. It lingers around questions of identity and belonging, as well as the „unspoken“ in a family and the responsibility to remember.
Klara Weber is a student of fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. After completing her Studies of Visual Design, she focused on the creation of short films and video art, continuing her education in the direction of fine arts. In her work, she often deals with topics of memory, intimacy and human relationships in context of the current political landscape. Often in a research-based apporach, she includes various mediums in her art practice, from drawing to sculpting and video work, in an attempt to immerse herself into the topics she is dealing with.