Sisters of Memory

Exhibition 'Sisters of Memory' about women from Yugoslavia repressed during the Great Terror in the USSR

About the exhibition

The exhibition will present findings of a memorial laboratory whose participants investigate archival databases, photographs, newspaper publications, and diaries to reconstruct the biographies of the repressed and to reveal behind the dry lines of investigative files the living women — with their beliefs, hopes, interests, love, and work.

Exhibition highlights

One of the exhibition's panels is dedicated to contemporary female political prisoners and shows how fabricated narratives of today's repressive persecutions in the Russian Federation repeat the NKVD's practices from almost a century ago. You will be able to sign postcards for these female political prisoners and leave them to be sent in a special envelope directly at the stand.

Workshop and film

Alongside the exhibition there will be a memorial-collage workshop and a screening of the film 'Erotikon' (1929) followed by a discussion about women's emancipation in Yugoslavia and the USSR.

Admission and donations

Admission is free, but the organizers ask, if possible, to leave donations to support the project's development: http://t.me/fem_serbia

Address

Address: Vojvode Dobrnjca 48, Belgrade — https://maps.app.goo.gl/e9z8stFHUZdGM7u88