Oma / Auma
elin o'Hara slavick
Thursday, October 18 - Friday, November 30
Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center
Opening Reception, Thursday October 18, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
My Oma, Gerda Lukas, died in 2006 at the age of 95. The color photographs were taken at the Red Cross Haus Am Killesberg in Suttgart, Germany the day after she died. The black and white photographs were taken over fifteen years ago in East Germany and last summer in what was once East
Germany, in the poorest county, north of Berlin. Both series touch upon loss, defeat and the time between transitions from socialism to capitalism, from
the past to the present, from failure to reconstruction. Trauma begs for representation.
For more information on these and other exhibits at the Franklin Center, contact Pamela Gutlon, p.gutlon@duke.edu.