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In the last five decades, the way war is represented in Western art has changed. Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, unveiled in Washington, DC in 1982, challenged the formalist approach to objects by using them to appeal to viewers’ affective responsiveness. This shift, inspired by the emotional impact of the Holocaust and testimony, opened new ways to address history by focusing on the spontaneous reactions of the body when confronted with historically marked objects or locations. Using Marianne Hirsch’s, Rosi Braidotti’s, and Sara Ahmed’s conceptualizations of memory, object, and affect, this article analyzes two public installations realized in Warsaw by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska. The two projects, Oxygenator (2007) and Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue (2002-ongoing), address Polish-Jewish history and the extermination of Jews during World War II. The article claims that Rajkowska upturns a standard way of addressing history and creates affective-cognitive spaces that impact collective memory through embodied experience.

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Nomadic Objects in Unhappy Lands: History, Memory, and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska’s Public Projects Carried out in Warsaw (2002–present)

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    2025年

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  • Justyna Wierzchowska

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In the last five decades, the way war is represented in Western art has changed. Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, unveiled in Washington, DC in 1982, challenged the formalist approach to objects by using them to appeal to viewers’ affective responsiveness. This shift, inspired by the emotional impact of the Holocaust and testimony, opened new ways to address history by focusing on the spontaneous reactions of the body when confronted with historically marked objects or locations. Using Marianne Hirsch’s, Rosi Braidotti’s, and Sara Ahmed’s conceptualizations of memory, object, and affect, this article analyzes two public installations realized in Warsaw by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska. The two projects, Oxygenator (2007) and Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue (2002-ongoing), address Polish-Jewish history and the extermination of Jews during World War II. The article claims that Rajkowska upturns a standard way of addressing history and creates affective-cognitive spaces that impact collective memory through embodied experience.