Cristiano Berti
lety
Lety #1 (2009)
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Lety #2 (2009)
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Lety (2009)
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Lety (2009)
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19:40 
 
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Lety (2009)
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Lety consists of a video, four photographs, some texts and songs. These images document an event which took place in May 2009, involving two Slovak Romany singers, František Ďuďa and Martina Ďuďová. Ferko and Martinka are brother and sister; they are blind and forced by illness to move about in a wheel chair. The event involved visiting a commemoration for the victims of the concentration camp at Lety, a village that is now in the Czech Republic, which during the Nazi occupation was the prison for 1,309 Romany, most of whom were later transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Since the 1970’s the site of the Lety camp has been used as an industrial pig farm. For this reason, the commemoration is held in a nearby woodland clearing.


 
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