Barbara Edwards Contemporary
is pleased to announce Ydessa Hendeles's participation in the exhibition
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow
. The exhibition presents the history of National Socialism in Munich and the special role the city played in the Nazi dictatorship's system of terror. Over 40 contemporary artists have developed their works in close cooperation with the historians at the NS Documentation Centre to offer insight and poetic commentary on Germany's culture of remembrance, and to address the characteristics, impact and consequences of racism, genocide and dictatorship in their significance for the present.
Ydessa Hendeles has developed a site-specific installation for the exhibition in the Abbey of St. Bonifaz to be unveiled on November 26th. This installation creates a dialogue with the exhibition venue and deals with the dividing and connecting force of belief systems. Hendeles's expansive composition of works of art, historical artefacts and photographs span ambiguous narratives between German history, the artist's biography as the only daughter of Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Canada in the early 1950s, and reflections on human nature in general. Hendeles's work is reminiscent of the dialectic of social developments and also outlooks possible other outcomes from a sinister story.
As a prelude to the exhibition opening, the installation will be made accessible to the public in the presence of the artist, the curators and Abbot Johannes Eckert on 26 November starting at 5 pm.
