Unable to wipe away the blood or erase the fact that it was shed. Making the deed and the guilt visible, even if the perpetrators never lifted a hand and the victims remained invisible: "Blood is on your hands." This is how Asal Dardan justifies the necessity of remembering and the responsibility of future generations. In Traumaland, she creates a new topography of Germany, traces the past, and explores parallel and contrasting experiences in immigrant society. The painful past reaches into our present, with Nazi crimes echoing cruelly in today's racist violence and the traumatic experiences of minorities.
Who shapes German history? Who bears responsibility for past guilt? Which memories are told, and which remain unheard? Asal Dardan challenges entrenched memory discourses with her quest for connections, simultaneous experiences, and hope for a shared remembrance that accommodates different realities.
"Asal Dardan maps a fragile landscape that guides us toward new ways of remembering." Deniz Utlu
