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Ansbach 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
2018

Name: Ansbach 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Brand: Krista Svalbonas
Rating: 5 (15 reviews)

$3,200

£2,402.13

€2,800.39

CA$4,531.85

A$4,544.38

CHF 2,629.17

MX$55,335.23

NOK 30,510.72

SEK 31,097.48

DKK 20,936.63

About the Item

Ansbach 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arrived in the United States as refugees. Born in Latvia and Lithuania, my parents spent many years after the end of World War II in displaced-person camps in Germany before they were allowed to emigrate to the United States. In this series, I set out to retrace and re-imagine that history. My family’s displacement is part of a long history of uprooted peoples for whom the idea of “home” is undermined by political agendas beyond their control. My parents’ childhood homes were impersonal structures appropriated from other civilian and military uses to house thousands of postwar refugees. They had always described this housing as temporary; I never expected to see these buildings myself. But after intensive archival research, I was able to locate, visit, and photograph many of the actual buildings on the sites of former DP camps in Germany. Today, the buildings give no hint of the tumultuous lives of the postwar refugees, stuck in stateless limbo with no idea what the future held. To better understand and honor their struggles, I turned to archived copies of the plea letters the Baltic refugees sent to the governments of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Page after page, they beg for food, bedding, and medical supplies, and attempt to explain the dire fate that would await them if they were repatriated to the Soviet Union. I merge these painful accounts with the photographs through a process of burning, an echo of the traumas of war the refugees had endured. The words of the refugees now form the complete image. Eventually made entirely of lace-like text, the buildings grow fragile, inseparable from the precarious lives they housed. A composite of my own experience and the fading memories of my parents and their generation, each of these layered pieces becomes a puzzle I am struggling to complete before this near-forgotten history is lost forever.

Creator:
Krista Svalbonas (1977, American)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
UniquePrice: $3,200
Medium:
Archival Pigment
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Sante Fe, NM
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134210069662

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