ZOE LEONARD – IN THE WAKE
2016-09-26Using old snapshots of Leonard’s family from the years after World War II as her starting point, Leonard examines the ripple effects of war that reverberate across generations. Her mother’s family was from Warsaw and remained there during World War II as active participants in the Polish Resistance Movement. At the end of the war, with Poland under Soviet occupation, Leonard’s grandmother – and her mother, still a child – escaped the country and reunited with her great aunt in a Displaced Persons camp in Italy. They remained stateless for over a decade before eventually immigrating to the United States and obtaining citizenship.
Opposite – Roll, #23
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2016
Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street
New York
NY 10021
