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The exhibition features a video installation, photographies and an extensive catalogue with texts from female historians.

The key moments for her concept are natural catastrophes, which leave the affected people behind with their whole existence in ruins, and Val’s experiences of the political upheavals in Hongkong 2019/2020, which she followed only as an observer. Now she picks up the camera as a tool for remembrance and commemorates female war photographers, who “regard the pain of others” (Susan Sontag), to point out injustice and suffering. She also highlights the women, who find the …