Effacing Memory, Drawing Center, NY

Anila Rubiku, Effacing Memory film(Excerpt), 2013© Copyright 2020
Anila Rubiku, Effacing Memory film(Excerpt), 2013© Copyright 2020

The online gallery  features Effacing Memory (2013) by Milan-based artist Anila Rubiku (born 1970; Durres, Albania).  Blending drawing, performance, and social practices, Effacing Memory is part of a larger project in which the artist laboriously renders and then erases the visages of famous dictators. In this film, we see Rubiku in the process of erasing her drawings; an attempt to have art “fight back” against the memory of oppression.

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