Cracking in Berlin

6th Exhibition in the 16th Nidbach series

Ido Suliman’s works range from dangerous and exciting to guilt evoking. Through a series of posters of fictive films, he challenges the well formulated collective memory of the Holocaust, disassembling and assembling the forbidden images scorched into our consciousness. Thus, the Stalag, Snuff and fetishist culture intertwines with the “Burekas” films, the stronghold of the Israeli other, churning the viewer’s stomach. The passion towards the “dark side” of our memory is reexamined through the Pop culture. Viewing the works raises the question – will the most horrific image, repeated and copied over and over, become “Pop” as well?

In his characteristic language of design, Ido presents references to the Holocaust that might be interpreted as cheapening its memorial. However, they mainly express the frustration of those who rarely have anything to do with the Holocaust but have absorbed its entire baggage: third generation people that seek to examine their place in the memory’s continuum and perhaps even succeed in unloading it.