As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I have long been interested in legacies of trauma and their relationship to the social structures of alienation. The project I am currently working on, "The Voice That Does Not Ring", is inspired my interest in these histories, as well as the personal tensions of social and economic precarity. Through explorations of colonized spaces, abandoned locals, and collaborative portraiture, I hope to examine notions of solitude and despair, alienation and temporality, as well as the intimacy of doubt and the transitory dimensions of our mortality. In a world faced with crisis and immense existential insecurity, I hope to address the human expressions of collapse, despair, and grief on a level that is at once personal and universal.
The Voice That Does Not Ring
28.07.23 — Ben Dickey
As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I have long been interested in legacies of trauma and their relationship to the social structures of alienation. The project I am currently working on, “The Voice That Does Not Ring”, is inspired my interest in these histories, as well as the personal tensions of social and economic precarity. Through explorations of colonized spaces, abandoned locals, and collaborative portraiture, I hope to examine notions of solitude and despair, alienation and temporality, as well as the intimacy of doubt and the transitory dimensions of our mortality. In a world faced with crisis and immense existential insecurity, I hope to address the human expressions of collapse, despair, and grief on a level that is at once personal and universal.