Personal Remembrance as Historical Memory: Eva Koch’s Interactive Visual Work on Her Mother’s Experience of the Spanish Civil War

• Montserrat Lunati Maruny ^[1]
  1. [1] University of St Andrews

     University of St Andrews

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Narratives of violence / coord. por Teresa Iribarren i Donadeu, Roger Canadell, Josep-Anton Fernàndez Montolí, 2021, ISBN 978-88-6969-460-8, págs. 55-86
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This essay explores the Danish sculptor and video-installation artist EvaKoch’s interactive visual works from 2001 based on her mother’s, and her mother’s family’s, experiences during the Spanish Civil War: Villar and Villar – Los hijos de Manuela.These works are a textualization of the past through remembrance in which no attempt ismade to offer a linear account of events or play down uncomfortable sub-narratives. Theanalysis, which exposes the precarious boundaries between the personal and the collective, draws from theoretical approaches to memory and history by Marianne Hirsch,Walter Benjamin, Jay Winter and Maurice Halbwachs.