Re-making History

Re-making History (2014) is a digital video that reworks footage recorded at the National Museum in Gniezno, Poland’s former capital and a site closely associated with the country’s national history and statehood. In each frame of the original video, the objects displayed in the museum were digitally erased. The altered frames were then reanimated to reconstruct the movement of the original museum tour. Viewers see the museum with emptied display cases, erased exhibition artifacts and removed historical objects. Through practice of erasure, the work reflects on how history is selected, framed, and made visible through cultural institutions.

Re-making History was exhibited and screened in 2014 at Dzyga Gallery in Lviv as part of the exhibition Not I / Nie Ja, situating the work within a broader dialogue about identity and the recontextualization of history.