Edward Serotta is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who was born in Savannah, Georgia. He specializes in Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, and since 1991 has been the director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation (Centropa, www.centropa.org), a not-for-profit organization in Vienna that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory. He is the author of three books, Out of the Shadows (1991), Survival in Sarajevo (1995), and Jews, Germany, Memory (1996), which have had accompanying exhibitions.
We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
Bar-El uses found materials as base materials, painting and writing directly onto street signs, discarded furniture, posters, and other objects that he scavenges from the streets of Tel Aviv…