Krzysztof Wodiczko
“Today’s public space is barricaded and monopolized by the powerful presence of historic symbolic structures and events, as well as by a monumental form of “publicity,” commercial and political. It represents what Walter Benjamin called “the history of the victors,” of those chosen to remember and be remembered, at the expense of the forgotten and invisible tradition of the “vanquished”.
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko's Tijuana Project
In 2001, Wodiczko projected the faces of women on the surface of an Omnimax Theater in Tijuana. In his work, he confronts the viewer with his large scale projection, as well as gives a voice to the female workers of the city of Tijuana.
The Tijuana Projection. El Centro Cultural, Tijuana, 2001
Watch video above, artist explaining the work in Tijuana.
Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, 1999
”The projection took place on August 7–8, 1999, the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The background was formed by the Atomic Bomb Dome, the only building located close to the epicenter of the explosion that wasn’t completely destroyed. On the embankment of the river Motoyasu at the foot of the Dome’s ruin, today known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the artist projected magnified images
of the hands of the explosion’s victims, while their recorded testimonies were played back through loudspeakers.”
South Africa House, London, 1985.
”It was an improvisation during the projections on Nelson’s Column and the Duke of York Column in London. One of the projectors was directed by the artist towards the South Africa House building in a gesture of support for demonstrations against South Africa’s apartheid policies and the loans offered to Pretoria by the Margaret Thatcher government.”
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 1988
Homeless: Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2014