Excerpts from Inna Rogatchi’s essay, January 2019
For the Time and The Place
In the video present, there are also fine art photography and fine art photography collage works. They are mine. They are referring to the places of the utmost atrocities during the Holocaust, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania. Later on, the collection was added with the works from Hungary. I have a strong feeling that the less Holocaust survivors we are having around us, the more motivated I am to do more and more art works which would help us to remember. It is as if my eyes are seeing the places and their scars from Shoah more tangibly every next year.
Inna Rogatchi (C). This Kind of Forest. Fine Art Photography. Limited Edition. Black Milk & Dark Stars series. 2014.
We have created this video as our artistic dialogue. Working in different techniques and genres on the same theme is mutually supportive. When the genres are as close, as the paths of visual art, paintings and drawing, from one side, and fine art photography and collage from the other, the dimension of paintings provides depth for art photography, while art photography sets the context for paintings.As the result, the volume is synthesised and the effort and the theme gets a deeper prospect.
In our family, we do not need a certain, designated one day in a year to remember the Shoah. We both were brought with our both families’ sleepless crying nights over loved ones whom our families did not manage to save from the Nazis and their so very willing collaborators in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Austria and France. We remember everyone of the Six Millions every minute of our lives. But on this day, the world is set to bring the conversation about it out. And it is certainly sobering and much needed practice which we support by every mean we can.
For the Name and The Place short art film, musical video-essay, had been created in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Yad Vashem. Would it be 70, 80 or more years since the Shoah have had place, we always will be looking in its Mirror.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Danube Step. Budapest. Hungary. Fine Art Photography. Limited Edition. Blak Milk & Dark Stars series. 2016.