An exhibition documenting sites of significant – and often dangerous - protest across Europe, in collaboration with Paul Raftery
For political scholars of the period just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1987-1989) the following sites have a special historical resonance:Lenin Shipyard, Gdańsk, Poland; Saint Nicholas Church, Leipzig, East Germany; Freedom Monument, Riga, Latvia; Vingis Park Song Ground, Vilnius, Lithuania; Song Festival Grounds, Tallinn, Estonia; Alexander Nevsky Square, Sofia, Bulgaria; Opera Square, Timisoara,
Romania; Freedom Square, Budapest, Hungary; Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
During this turbulent period they were sites of significant and often dangerous protest. They were the sites where the fundamental desire for democracy manifested itself.
At these sites people of all ages came together to demand political change and an end to communism.
Each country subsequently became a member of the EU, and each location in each country has its own history and its own cultural and political references.
Over the last three years, since the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 1989, photographer Paul Raftery has visited these sites, shooting them all at dawn – the beginning of a new day and the beginning of a political era.
The work is a meditation on the use of public spaces and an investigation of memory, democracy and place.
These sites have even more relevance now in 2022 when many of these countries live in fear of a return to autocracy.
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