Dissent and Displacement (#6)
‘Dissent and Displacement’, is an exhibition commissioned by Leicester Museums, about storytelling; history, memory and how we reflect on our lives. It explores opposition, persecution and persistence inspired by the artists German Jewish refugee heritage and the Leicester German Expressionist art collection. Interweaving threads of family, politics, culture and art, it uses original sources, to bring together contemporary, painterly lithographic prints with accessible descriptive text.
As Baroness Julia Neuberger wrote in the forward to the book of the exhibition:
“In Dissent and Displacement Petzal takes on the oldest of journeys; people leaving their homeland because of persecution and war and turns it into a story that never ends. This exhibition challenges conventional thinking about refugees.
Admission to a new country and a welcome, rejection and toleration, experience overlaid with experience, the morphing of ideas of home; all these are shown in Petzal’s exhibition, and all her prints challenge us, the viewers, to think again what displacement means to those who experience it and to those who come after them.”
