Hadas Tapouchi, Memory Practice

Memory Practice

Hadas Tapouchi

Publisher
Distanz
Year
2026
ISBN
978-3-95476-844-8
Specifications
Hardcover
18.5 × 24 cm
128 pages
English

Hadas Tapouchi (b. Tel Aviv, 1981; lives and works in Berlin) uses photography, video, and a research-based approach to explore the transformation of urban space and examine how architecture functions as a storehouse of knowledge. For her new book project Memory Practice, Tapouchi visited the settings of World War II–era crimes and captured their contemporary appearance in discreet photographs. Her pictures reveal how industrial installations where the Nazis used forced labor and other sites of atrocities have been repurposed and now seem to blend seamlessly into the surrounding cityscape. These places—schools, gas stations, public offices, restaurants, cinemas—often serve perfectly ordinary functions today, but their histo- ric significance lingers beneath the surface. Tapouchi’s work asks: Which processes of normalization can be detected? How has the anguish caused by violence, coercion, and surveillance become imprinted on contemporary urban and social structures? Or how are such traces covered up, leaving blanks in the collective recollection? The artist has documented these vanishing traces in Berlin and cities and towns across Central and Eastern Europe and Greece since 2014. The book Memory Practice reviews her research of the past eleven years, and contains essays by Yael Almog and the artist.

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