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Die Erinnerung an meine Kindheit is a story about transformation and healing, a very personal journey to my own heart and to a self worthy of love and life. The same-titled publication, created in collaboration with the designer Clemens Schedler, Büro für konkrete Gestaltung, provides an insight into the autobiographical analysis of traumatic experiences of childhood abuse.It was only decades later, while experiencing growing signs of depression and isolation, that I was able to engage with the painful recollections of these events. Through therapeutic practices I captured memories in paintings, drawings, text and photography in order to give the unspeakable a name and a form. My biography is not an isolated case. As their lone companion, shame separates the victim from a good, self-determined life, even after years of suffering.
Manfred Nowak, co-founder of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights and Head of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty wrote the afterword. Distribution and Marketing by VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst.
German Edition 2020 | Swiss Brochure 96 Pages | 25,2×18 cm | 48 Illustrations in b|w and Color ISBN 978-3-903320-76-5
The publication received generous support by a number of institutions, amongst them the Federal Chancellery of Austria, RD Foundation Vienna, Bildrecht GmbH and KJA Kinder- und Jugendanwaltschaft Wien.
Die Erinnerung an meine Kindheit was presented at Goodenough College William Goodenough House London UK, Lentos Museum Linz AT, Gallery Andrea Jünger Vienna AT, Ö1 Austrian Broadcasting and Wiener Zeitung Vienna AT.
