Title: Traces of violence
Photographer(s): Marcelo Brodsky
Writer(s): Robert G.Rodriguez, Sima Luipert, Rolando Vazquez, Wolfgang Kaleck, Marcelo Brodsky, Ngondi A.Kamatuka, Louisa K.Kamatuka, Vepuka Katuuo-Kauari, Heike Becker
Designer(s): Dustin Augustin, Simin Melchers
Publisher(s): ARTCO Galerie Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Year: 2021
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Language(s): English, German
Pages: 82
Size: 19,5 x 25 cm
Binding: Hardcover
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Print: in Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Namibia, 1904-1908
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The first genocide of the 20th century was committed by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908 in South West Africa, today Namibia. The genocide was directed against the Nama and Herero ethnic groups, indigenous peoples of this region. In their work, Marcelo Brodsky and Hildegard Titus, who are both artists and human rights activists, address this crime against humanity, the way in which it is remembered and reappraised.
Marcelo Brodsky believes in the importance of art for the social debate, especially in its power to influence public opinion and attract media attention. During his activist work, Brodsky met the German human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck - founder and director of ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights). Following this encounter, Brodsky invited the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation based in Namibia to develop an art project on their case and present it in Berlin.