The layers of remembrance
Marking Memory 'creates space for visitors to connect with both the personal and collective dimensions of Holocaust memory'
Contemporary Australian artist Kathy Temin is presenting a major exhibition at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, bringing together more than 20 years of work exploring memory, history and loss.
Marking Memory, which opened earlier this year, spans the museum’s Alter Family Special Exhibitions Gallery and draws on Temin’s longstanding Remembrance series – monumental sculptures crafted from faux fur, accompanied by sound and testimony.
The choice of material is deliberate.
Faux fur, with its associations of comfort and domesticity, sits in tension with the weight of what the works memorialise, creating an experience that is both intimate and confronting.
Temin, a professor of fine art at Monash University and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, has been practising as an artist since 1989 and rose to prominence locally and internationally in the 1990s. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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