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CEIJA STOJKA, A Roma artist in the century.
Exhibition catalog, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2018.

CEIJA STOJKA, A Roma artist in the century.

FAGE editions.
€30,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25197
Format 22 x 27 cm
Détails 200 p., Paperback.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782849754962
The exhibition at La maison rouge brings together for the first time in France more than one hundred and fifty works by Roma artist Ceija Stojka, born in Austria in 1933. Deported at the age of ten, she survived three concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen. At the age of fifty-five, she broke her silence and embarked on a fantastic work of memory, which gave rise to several stories and more than a thousand works, inks, gouaches, and acrylics on canvas or paper, while she was self-taught. She thus became the first Roma woman survivor of the death camps to bear witness to her concentration camp experience, against oblivion and denial, against the anti-Roma racism prevalent in Austria and Europe. The collection she left behind upon her death in 2013 gives the impression of a large diary without chronology, where paintings and writings intertwine to restore the nightmarish memories of a child about what is called Samudaripen or Gypsy genocide. This catalog, produced on the occasion of the exhibition, strives to faithfully restore the artist's spirit, her singularity, her life force and reveals an extraordinary pictorial work.
The exhibition at La maison rouge brings together for the first time in France more than one hundred and fifty works by Roma artist Ceija Stojka, born in Austria in 1933. Deported at the age of ten, she survived three concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen. At the age of fifty-five, she broke her silence and embarked on a fantastic work of memory, which gave rise to several stories and more than a thousand works, inks, gouaches, and acrylics on canvas or paper, while she was self-taught. She thus became the first Roma woman survivor of the death camps to bear witness to her concentration camp experience, against oblivion and denial, against the anti-Roma racism prevalent in Austria and Europe. The collection she left behind upon her death in 2013 gives the impression of a large diary without chronology, where paintings and writings intertwine to restore the nightmarish memories of a child about what is called Samudaripen or Gypsy genocide. This catalog, produced on the occasion of the exhibition, strives to faithfully restore the artist's spirit, her singularity, her life force and reveals an extraordinary pictorial work.