Friday Morning Talks: Forgotten Force: Art and Memory -With Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga & Olga Topol

Join us for our Friday morning talk, with those behind the creation our current temporary exhibition, ‘Forgotten Force: Art and Memory’.

Artist and art conservator Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga will talk about her art response in the context of an oral history project and about processes she used.

Olga Topol will talk about her experience of curating the exhibition and introduce the work of the Jozef Pilsudski Institute.

Forgotten Force was an oral history project by the Piłsudski Institute of London giving first-hand evidence of the past by audio and video recording stories of Polish women survivors of the Second World War who have been residing in the UK for the past seventy years. To help bring these stories to life the Institute invited a London based artist and art conservator, Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga, to interpret the assembled tales and translate them to image.

Ephemeral, monochromatic, charcoal drawings that define the distant memory of a dramatic journey. Marbled paper bursting with splashes of colour embedded in the background; droplets of the past reimagined through an artist’s compassionate eye. Mothers shielding their children, railway tracks, snowy landscapes and angels emerge from the work of Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga to find a way into our hearts and memories.

This talk will take place onsite in the Museum’s Learning Centre and is included in Museum admission or Annual Membership.

Advance booking required – please reserve your seat via the link below.

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