26/9/24 @ 14:00 - 30/11/24, 0 Foyer of the cinema in the Ghetto Museum
Photo exhibition
Richard Homola (born 1966) is an admirer of the tradition of classic large-format photography. His images are humble and documentary, and he is well aware that photography can convey the past better than most other artistic media. This awareness brought him to Terezín between 2013-2016, where he noticed texts, notes, images, or relatively large murals referring to life behind the ghetto walls and the suffering of the people during World War II.
With his large-format camera, he systematically walked through Terezín's cellars, attics, hidden spaces, as well as public areas, trying to record in his images everything that refers to the troubled past. The lines counting down the lost days, the names and years engraved in stone, the Stars of David and swastikas, or inscriptions such as "Christmas 1943", "Here they rested in peace and fear" refer to the desperate attempt to leave something behind, to give vent to their emotions. Each line, each letter bears the weight of the moment in which it was created. And Homol's photographs "preserve" this urgency and transmit it to us,
the viewers.
The exhibition will present a selection of original contact positives from this exceptional set, which has no analogue in the context of Czech photography.
- the foyer of the Ghetto Museum cinema
- the exhibition will be opened with an opening ceremony on September 26, 2024 at 2 p.m
- musical performance at the opening will be provided by Jiří Hošek and Dominika Weiss Hošková on cello