Marta Popivoda, “What Lies Above Us in The Shadows Like a Black Cloud”, (2024), 2 channel 4k video, stereo sound, 23 min loop, still.
Marta Popivoda
The exhibition showcases an audiovisual work by contemporary Serbian artist Marta Popivoda, featuring Jaroslava Skleničková (1927–2024), the last living Lidice Woman, alongside the voices of the feminist collective Kolektiv Sdruženy.
They recite a poem, both in Czech and English, written by the antifascist resistance fighter Anna Kvapilová (1905–1992), while imprisoned in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, where she was kept prisoner alongside Jaroslava and the other Lidice Women.
During an interview with Marta, Jaroslava recites the poem from memory, with some slight modifications, in response to a question about her connection to the landscape of Lidice.
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