Art Trip: In Munich, Ydessa Hendeles uses historical artifacts to examine the power of belief systems GlobeArts
Ydessa Hendeles's installation The Steeple and the People is part of the Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow exhibition at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.The Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, which occupies the site of the Nazi Party’s former headquarters, stands as a constant reminder of how the German city served as a fascist stronghold that lent power and legitimacy to a cult of terror.
Its current exhibition, Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow, on view to Aug. 30, invites 40 international artists, including Canadians Ydessa Hendeles, Brenda Draney, Brian Jungen, Ken Lum, Kent Monkman and Jon Rafman, to look to the history of National Socialism as a starting point to consider how right-wing populist opinion has once again infiltrated and become normalized in public discourse., housed off-site at St.
“The work ‘rewinds’ a dark story both to address it and to erase it by proposing a path for the future,” Hendeles says. By boldly rewriting history to eliminate its uncomfortable truths, the artist provides an effective rebuke to the populist’s appeal to return to a homogenous past that exists exclusively in the imaginary.
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