Ana Bilankov: Echoing the Silence

23.04.2026. - 07.06.2026. / MSU, Black Box

* Opening of the exhibition: April 23, 2026 at 7 pm *

What remains when history falls silent?

Ana Bilankov's exhibition Odjek tišine (Echoing the Silence) takes as its starting point a forgotten chapter in the history of Mediterranean migrations – an exile to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt during the World War II – and turns it into a multilayered exploration of memory, displacement, and absence. Paraphrasing Frederic Jameson, who in his book The Political Unconscious asserts that history is "what hurts", an actual force resisting us because it is not susceptible to our desires or projects, the exhibition invites us to dive into the painful present and to transcend it by witnessing and refusing to forget it.