Ilana Zisman
Bio
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Psychology at University Santa Úrsula-RJ, she took courses at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, Philosophy and Contemporary Art at PUC-Rio, Creative Process with Charles Watson. Since 2015, she has developed an artistic research through what she calls “fragment technology”, in an attempt to reconstruct a memory of the unspeakable and of silence.
Statement
My production started with an artistic investigation, when I realized that part of my family's memory did not exist, because my father, a Holocaust survivor, did not transmit what he had lived. Preserving memory is also a political task, a fight against forgetfulness, and the repetition of horror. In the process, I reuse scraps of various materials. I seek to create ways of presenting not only my past but our past, the past of humanity.
