- Venue
- The North Wall Arts Centre
- Starts
- Monday, June 7, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, June 26, 2010
- Address
- South Parade Oxford OX2 7NN
- Location
- South East England
Nicholas Hedges’ large photographic installations are concerned with history – but he interprets history not as a series of distant events that are dead and buried, but a collection of encounters and dialogues between the past and the present that are very much a part of now. By exploring family history, memories and the private histories of individuals unknown, Nicholas Hedges’ work mostly draws on experiences at sites of historic trauma: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec and Majdanek, Ypres and Verdun. His work examines the needs of those that feel compelled to visit these sites of mass destruction – sometimes called ‘dark tourists’ – and his own needs to connect with his ancestry after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2006.
