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Art Gallery of Hamilton - Last Folio: Yuri Dojc

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Last Folio: Yuri Dojc

October 22, 2016 - May 14, 2017

Time had stood still since 1943 in a small Jewish village in Slovakia, until nearly 10 years ago when Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc returned to visit his family’s former home.

On the eve of World War II, many of the villagers had fled, and those remaining were taken away to concentration camps. Serendipity led Dojc, along with a documentary film team to the local Jewish school, which had been locked since 1943. All the school books were still there; including essay notebooks with corrections—even the sugar was still in the cupboard.

The decaying books, which were lying on dusty shelves, the last witnesses of a once thriving culture, are treated by Dojc like the survivors they are–each one captured as a portrait, preserved in their final beauty, silent witnesses to the horrors of history.

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Curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art

Header Image: Yuri Dojc Book, Bardejov (detail), 2007, chromogenic print, Courtesy of the artist

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Catelogue - Last Folio

Last Folio

Exhibition Catalogue available at the Shop at AGH or online.

11.4 × 12.2 × 0.98 Hardcover
128 pages
ISBN: 9783791381459

Price: $60.00

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From the International Art Collection


Esquisse, Composition Polychrome 1947

Fernand Léger (French 1881-1955)

oil on canvas, Gift of the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1988, donated by Walter Carsen, 1976
© Estate of Fernand Léger / SODRAC (2016)

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