Inherited Trauma
A research-led visual-art project investigating inherited memory, absence and the afterlife of traumatic histories.
Context
A research-led body of visual work examining inherited memory and the intergenerational traces of Holocaust trauma, approached through archival thinking and material image-making.
Question / Challenge
How can a history that was not directly experienced be carried and represented without pretending to recover it fully?
My role
Artist and researcher: concept, research, material and image selection, making and editing.
Process
- Archival and historical research into inherited memory and its traces.
- Develop visual responses across photography, painting, installation and artist's-book form.
- Edit and sequence the material into a coherent body of work.
AI contribution
Not applicable — this work predates and sits outside the AI strands.
Human judgement
The work is entirely authored: research, material decisions, making and editing.
Output
A 2023 multidisciplinary body of work across installation, painting, photography and artist's-book form.
Reflection
The work holds absence and inheritance together: what is carried cannot be fully recovered, and representation has to admit that gap rather than close it.