Jonas Mekas to show photographs from his time as a WWII refugee at Documenta 14
Film-maker Jonas Mekas to show photographs from his time as a WWII refugee at Documenta 14. Images the Lithuanian-American artist took at displaced persons camps in Germany reflect the current refugee crisis in Europe.
The veteran Lithuanian-American avant-garde filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas, who was captured by Nazis and sent to a forced labour camp in Germany, will show photographs from his time as a refugee after the Second World War 2 at Documenta 14. This year’s exhibition, “is very much focused on the refugee situation,” Mekas, 94, said in an interview, “so my photographs are connected directly with it, the problem of refugees, what’s happening right now in Europe, that we don’t talk about here [in the US].”
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