How do you learn to grie­ve when the­re has ne­ver been a space for it? What re­mains of fe­ma­le images that have emer­ged bet­ween strength, con­for­mi­ty, and si­lence? And how can you deal with grief wi­t­hout ha­ving to ex­p­lain or re­sol­ve it?

En­ga­ging with theo­re­ti­cal and ar­tis­tic po­si­ti­ons, in­clu­ding tho­se of Ber­tolt Brecht and Su­san Son­tag, "Si­lence of sys­tem/s" asks how suf­fe­ring is shown, view­ed, or igno­red – and what re­spon­si­bi­li­ty this ent­ails for view­ers. Against the back­drop of cur­rent po­li­ti­cal vio­lence in Eas­tern Eu­ro­pe, the fo­cus is not on abs­tract power re­la­ti­ons, but on their quiet ef­fec­ts on wo­men's self-con­fi­dence. Post-So­viet fe­mi­nist sto­ries and works by fe­ma­le ar­tists of the 1970s in the for­mer Eas­tern Bloc are pre­sen­ted. The in­stal­la­ti­on in­vi­tes view­ers to un­der­stand grief as a so­ci­al and po­li­ti­cal prac­tice that un­folds bet­ween per­so­nal and collec­tive ex­pe­ri­en­ces.

By: Csen­ge Ka­t­i­ca Ki­ra­ly
Out­si­de Eye: Lin Yang