Maya Zack

Living Room no. 4, 2009

The artworks of Maya Zack take the form of complex artistic analogies that are concerned with both the history and the continuing mental presence of the Holocaust. The photographic series Living Room represent the apartment of a Jewish family Nomburg in Berlin around 1930. Zack initially displayed the four parts of the series to be viewed through 3D glasses and accompanied by a voice narration with the personal recollections of Manfred Nomburg, who, as a Jew, had to leave his parents’ home in 1938. Zacks individually featured reconstruction of the room’s furnishings shows  blurred areas or a lack of detail for absent or faded memories. “Living Room visualizes the fragmentation inherent in memory, which is a fictional/virtual dimension of reality that must traverse a complex sequence of filters and caesurae to reach us.” (M.Z.)