Presence Absence Traces
Jerzy Elżanowski, Domestication of Violence: Notes on the Social and Spatial Trespass on the Anthropogenic Layer of Warsaw, in: Presence/ Absence/ Traces, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2016
this publication accompanies The Cut project

The text by Jerzy Elżanowski accompanies The Cut project by Aslı Ç̧avuşoğlu, Simone De Iacobis and Małgorzata Kuciewicz, part of the artist-in-residence programme in 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition Presence/ Absence/ Traces at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (March 11 – April 25, 2016) curated by Ewa Chomicka and Agnieszka Pindera with works made during 13 artistic residencies at POLIN Museum.

CENTRALA’s and Aslı Ç̧avuşoğlu residency was concluded with a meeting led by Jerzy Elżanowski, a scholar from Carleton University, Ottawa, whose interests include issues related to the phenomenon of ruins, the author of Domestication of Violence: Notes on the Social and Spatial Trespass on the Anthropogenic Layer of Warsaw.