The Documenta contemporary art fair, in Kassel, near Frankfurt, which closes its doors this Sunday, will have been at the heart of the controversy of the summer in Germany.
The video "work" featuring anti-Semitic slogans and a banner representing Jews with the heads of pigs, hooked noses, and a cigar at the corner of their lips, was finally taken down.
This return of content hostile to the Jews is linked to the openness to the memorial and political claims of the “countries of the South”, formerly colonized, according to the German-Israeli sociologist Natan Sznaider, who studies the mutation of the memory of the Holocaust.
His latest book,
Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung
(at Hanser, untranslated), was part of the final selection for the prestigious Tractatus Prize.
LE FIGARO.
- This edition of Documenta will remain as that of an anti-Semitic scandal.
What conclusions do you draw from this event?
Nathan SZNAIDER.
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I still have a bitter taste.
This edition was the clash of two worlds, confronting the largest art exhibition…
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