In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Berlin and as usual

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moreEin Krokodil fährt zur Arbeit…mehr muss man eigentlich nicht verraten

Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects

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In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Berlin and as usualWith the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, moreand heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers