Pre-war porcelain sepulchral portraits from Radom region

14 March 2019 Lecture

History, systematics, conservancy problems

We want to keep the faces of our love ones in our minds. Maybe that’s why we take pictures so gladly. We keep on the photographs the most important events of our lives, but also this moments which seem to be negligible. All this only for one thing – to look at smiley or serious faces of our parents, grandparents, classmates after many many years…

And what about sepulchral portraits? Aren’t they the greatest proof of our longings? In this case, how strongly disappointed had to be those, who believed the photographers and put pictures on the graves…

Ms. Marta Trojanowska, during yesterday’s meeting, showed us how little is left of what supposed to last forever. By hard and tedious work of inventorying sepulchral porcelains from Radom region she’s trying to sensitised people to fragility of everything they are surrounded. However she shows that cemetery images are also, if not primarily, the testimony of life and everydayness of those, who look at us from crumbling pictures…