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When art transmits memory

the portraits of the Righteous by Francine Mayran

Francine Mayran, painter, ceramist and psychiatrist from Strasbourg, "born after World War II", expert at the Council of Europe, sees art as a "transmission belt" in which paintings, ceramics and texts build a European memory pathway formed by about fifty exhibitions at all main European Memorials, from Tirana to London, from Bulgaria to Germany.

For the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide she created thirty new works accompanied by the leaflet "After the Holocaust we said 'Never again'...". In her opinion, whereas history informs, art forces us to ask ourselves about them, our nature and our conscience. This accomplishes a baton passing against indifference, to honour the victims, keep the survivors' message alive and keep on investigating what happened and its effects on the survivors, their descendants and the entire humanity.

Witnesses, and the Righteous in particular, play a key role in this process. As explained in her biography in www.fmayran.com, Francine Mayran creates on concrete these portraits, which in our opinion are very moving, of Righteous people in the Holocaust and other genocide cases, remembering their "extraordinary capability to accomplish Good", to be lights in the darkness of the world. At the Council of Europe she is actively involved int he field of Education and Pedagogy and she works with teacher from all over the continent to work through the memory of all victims of genocide cases, rejecting every kind of rivalry. 

21 May 2015

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The portraits of the Righteous, by Francine Mayran

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