Against Seeing

The project responds to a set of photographs found in a family archive that depict the aftermath of the bombing of Nitra by the Red Army in 1945. I question the meaning of further reproducing images of violence and human suffering.

Instead of showing the photographs directly, I chose to work with their captions that refer to what these images represent. The project thus examines the limits of seeing and representation: what happens when the image of violence is replaced by language?

The act of covering or withholding these photographs becomes, for me, a gesture of resistance against visual violence, as well as an attempt at their re-categorisation. The work opens up the question of how we can speak about historical trauma without visually exploiting it once again.

The project was part of the group exhibition The Resistant Archive in Tranzit Gallery Bratislava, 2025.