SARAH KETELAARS
(UNITED KINGDOM)
Sarah Ketelaars is an artist living and working in Brighton, UK. Her current practice looks at her family history, examining themes of cultural inheritance, identity and intergenerational trauma.
Of her most recent project 'The 544’, Sarah says:
'This ongoing project is a memorial to 544 psychiatric patients murdered by the Nazis in 1941 in Latvia. My grandmother was working at the hospital from where the patients were taken.
The figurative images are all cyanotypes. Eventually there will be one for each man, woman and child killed.
The project is primarily intended as a memorial. Not knowing anything about the the identities of the dead, I have tried to imagine each one as a unique, precious being, and give each back a little of the character stripped from them when they were murdered and reduced by history to a number on a list of nameless victims.'
