»You & Us - Integration of Displaced Persons in Baden-Württemberg« Exhibition
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The exhibition chooses not to simply focus on the expulsion and flight of people. It takes the story of over 1.6 million expellees, and makes the process of their integration into South-West Germany a real experience for visitors.
The visitor enters the exhibition through an outer glass wall which appears as a curtain of typography, listing the regions and cities from which over 12 million people were banished. A walkable map of Eastern and Central Europe shows the origins of the refugees, with hundreds of animated arrows marking the routes of their escape. The light of the projected arrows also skims across the visitors, involving them in the movement.
The main room, „Field of Encounter“, comprises 28 vitrines by which the visitor can ascertain 28 stories through various subject areas – living, work, family, church, society etc. The walls of the room are mirrored to extend the field of vitrines infinitely in all directions.
Before leaving the exhibition, the visitor is invited to spend time in the „Contemporary Witnesses Cinema“ showing interviews with refugees from the first, second and third generations considering how their identities have changed through integration.
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