Is the impact of photos of the Nazi death camps lost? At the University of San Marino a workshop with Anna Steiner and Luis Sal
The designer and the youtuber at work together with 39 students for an exhibition to “give power back to images”
“The images related to the Nazi extermination camps risk losing their original impact and becoming confused, losing their meaning, in the amount of photos that bombard us every day on social media and beyond”. for this theUniversity of the Republic of San Marinoas part of the three-year degree course in Design, he is dedicating a workshop to a project with which thirty-nine students will ‘redefine’ and include in an exhibition a series of photographs that caused a stir in the 1970s: those, then little known, selected by Albe Steiner. “It was one of the most representative graphs of the post-war period – explains the teacher Lucia Roscini, who coordinates the laboratory – previously a partisan together with his wife. Among other things, they had developed the logo of the Val d’Ossola Division, used by the partisans: an important symbol of recognition in very hard times”.
Just the daughter of the couple, Annateacher and architect, active in the world of installations and graphics, met the students of the University of San Marino on 12 and 13 January for a workshop in which the students “came in contact with a direct witness who got to know the original selection – continues Roscini, supported by the assistant Ilaria Ruggeri – saw it being born and obviously had a special relationship with the curators”.
The project, in addition to the definition of the new exhibition, includes a communication campaign for which the members will make use of a second workshop which last week involved Luis Salyoutubers and web celebrities, millions of subscribers and followers on various platforms.
Usmaradio has dedicated two podcasts to the initiative, with speeches by Anna Steiner and Luis Sal: they can be listened to on the website www.usmaradio.org and on spreaker.com, on the broadcaster’s page, in the “uni.rsm design talks”.