Lucrezia Zanardi Etty Hillesum published “Present Traces of a Past Existence: A Photographic Research“ which reshapes the story of the dutch intellectual Etty Hillesum (Middelburg 01.15.1914 – Auschwitz 11.30.1943), combining archive research and photographic intervention.
Hillesum started a diary on Sunday March 9, 1941, in Amsterdam during German occupation. She began writing diaries on the advice of the psychochirologist Julius Spier (1887-1942), with whom Hillesum had just begun therapy. Taken together, the collected diaries show Hillesum’s deep inner transformation and manifest her keen literary talent.
Lucrezia Zanardi (b. 1994 in Bologna, Italy) is a media artist, research assistant, and lecturer in art studies at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Currently, Lucrezia is working on an archive-based PhD 
project at the Edith-Stein-Archive in Cologne. She lives and works in Bochum, DE.
project at the Edith-Stein-Archive in Cologne. She lives and works in Bochum, DE.PhD researcher at FH Dortmund and Radboud University Nijmegen.
Board Member, Non-Profit Etty Hillesum Huis Middelburg: Leading curator permanent exhibition and contemporary arts programs.
MA in Photography – Photographic Studies at FH Dortmund (2020). BA studies at HfG Karlsruhe and IUAV Venice. Graduated in Multimedia Arts at IUAV University of Venice (2016).
“In my work, I focus on two overarching themes: Self- and collective perception and memory practices in archival research. Materiality, its three-dimensional presence as well as tactile sensation are essential for my photographic practice. My first self oriented focus developed through the years on a reflection on the perception of archival material and layers of memory, eventually permitting a phenomenological inquiry of the photographic act.”
Take a look at her haar website.
Also published by Lucrezia Zanardi
- “Present Traces of a Past Existence: Through the Lens of Photography.” In: Klaas A.D. Smelik (ed.), The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings: Proceedings of the Third International Etty Hillesum Conference at Middelburg, September 2018. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 409-419. Follow this link for more details.
Notes to Lucrezia Zanardi Etty Hillesum Auteur
- Read this interview met Lucrezia Zanardi (in Italian).
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