ESZTER SALAMON

About Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, artist and performer. She lives and works between Berlin, Paris, and Budapest. She is currently..... Since 2014, Eszter Salamon has been working on a series of works re-thinking the monument and exploring ways of re-hallucinating history without the promise of teleology. In these works, memory is created to counter fantasies of identity, authenticity, and origin. These monuments are embodied, performative, and temporal. They are conceived as processes of emancipation from positivist conceptions of history and to protect against amnesia. They are thought of as anti-monuments, always numbered below the threshold of 1. The monuments are occasions that resist oblivion and exclusion and have the potential to transform and repair as they invest in the act of creating memory, which is their capacity to build narratives through performative archives of poetic documents. When celebrating forgotten artists, aging bodies, rhythms, and the gestures of..

Primary location: Paris France