Film student Anri Sala pulls a film reel from the past out of a box. It shows his mother at a political conference with the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha and in an interview – but without sound. In order to confront his mother with repressed aspects of the system of the time, Anri Sala, now a visual artist, has the sound reconstructed with the help of a deaf person. The intergenerational confrontation opens a door to the subject of fear in authoritarian communism. The silent archive material becomes the occasion for free exchange.

© Anri Sala. Courtesy of Ideal Audience International, Paris; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

Image © Anri Sala, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn *

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• Programm Programme: Social Dreaming 2 (curated by Anna Zett)