This video is part of an installation composed of an audiovisual piece and a photograph of equal size taken from a still from the same video. It documents the artist’s car ride between Krakow and Auschwitz on a day of heavy fog. The trip is recorded in such a way that its start and end points get mixed up. This, plus the spatial closeness of static and moving image, blurs the line between those two points. The piece is a reflection on the impalpability of the pain, the dizziness and the impasse of tourism which cannibalizes history. It converses with a traceless narrative through imprecise images that erase themselves continuously. These images are an incursion into landscapes that are pure memory nonetheless. This artwork was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
