The Warsaw Ghetto IV, 2006
Spray painting, chalk and rabbit skin glue on burlap
57.9 x 45.3 in / 147 x 115 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto III, 2006
Chalk and rabbit skin glue on burlap
57.9 x 45.3 in / 147 x 115 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto II, 2006
Chalk and rabbit skin glue on burlap
57.9 x 45.3 in / 147 x 115 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto III, 2006
Chalk and rabbit skin glue on burlap
57.9 x 45.3 in / 147 x 115 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Grey), 2004
Oil and ashes on linen
57.9 x 45.3 in / 147 x 115 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Red), 2004-2011
Oil and ashes on linen
59.4 x 59.4 in / 151 x 151 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Hole), 2006
Spray painting on wooden pallet
40.4 x 29.5 in / 102.5 x 75 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Writing), 2005
Casein, oil and spray painting on paper
18.5 x 13 in / 47 x 33 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Black), 2009
Oil, casein and spray painting on wood
25.6 x 21 in / 65 x 54 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Fire), 2005
Spray painting on wooden chipboard
21.3 x 15.7 in / 54 x 40 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (White), 2004
Oil on broken plywood
11 x 9.4 in / 28 x 24 cm
Collection of Jeffrey Swartz, Barcelona (Spain)
The Warsaw Ghetto (Black and White), 2010
Oil, casein, spray painting, chalk and rabbit skin glue on linen
63.8 x 44.9 in / 162 x 114 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Disappearance), 2006
Acrylic on cuted burlap
52 x 40 in / 132 x 102 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (Black), 2011
Casein, spray painting, chalk and rabbit skin glue on paper
20.9 x 14.8 in / 53 x 37.5 cm
The Warsaw Ghetto (White), 2011
Casein, spray painting, chalk and rabbit skin glue on paper
19.7 x 15 .4 in / 50 x 39 cm
The series The Warsaw Ghetto is an artistic investigation into the map of this ghetto. The research focuses on the contour line that segregates it from the city, becoming the fence of a deadly trap. This was the biggest ghetto as it packed together almost 400,000 Polish Jews. To isolate them, the Nazis constructed a three-metre high wall around the perimeter, creating conditions of extreme degradation inside: overcrowding, hunger, cold, dirt, epidemics and mass deportations towards the Treblinka slaughterhouse. Finally, in spring 1943 the Jewish resistance rose up. After almost one month of a heroic and very unequal struggle, the Nazis set the ghetto on fire and the Jews were defeated.
