Part of Man and Catastrophe project to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of Auschwitz concentration campJewish Museum & Tolerance Center
Moscow, Russia
Authors of exposition: Sergei Tchoban, Agniya Sterligova
Photo: Danila Remizov
Project implementation: bokovfactory
«Jan Vanriet is a pivotal figure in modern narrative painting. He is profoundly interested in the tragedies and authentic personal stories of people. In the archives of the Belgian city of Mechelen the painter discovered photographs of prisoners of Kaserne Dossin transit camp. All the people from the photographs, as all other 25 000 prisoners of the camp, were deportees from Dossin to Auschwitz concentration camp, destined to be killed. Based on the photographs, the painter made portraits of the people long gone. The exhibition marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz».
The way into the giant «accordion» of the exhibition space lies through endless names of the victims of Kaserne Dossin transit camp on the external walls. The interior opens up a perspective of faces lookng from Jan Vanriet's portraits directly at visitors».