Ausst. Kat. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warschau 2022
Wilhelm Sasnal: Untitled (Reader) is an anthology of historical and newly commissioned texts that address the memory politics in Poland and elsewhere, as well as inquire into root causes of contemporary racism and xenophobia in 'perverted teaching and human hate and prejudice. The texts in the book are interspersed with reproductions of paintings Wilhelm Sasnal produced between 1999 and 2021
The main catalogue of documenta 14 will take the form of a reader, evoking the various meanings associated with the term. The documenta 14 reader will both reflect the reading subject and the subject who reads or recites to an audience—emphasizing the importance of literature, orality, performance, pedagogy, and radical reception for the documenta 14 project overall—as well as comprise a critical anthology that features international theoretical, historical, and literary writing that explores and expands on the attendant exhibitions in Athens and Kassel. The indigo ribbon that marks the pages of the book was prepared at the MENTIS Center for the Preservation of Traditional Textile Techniques, part of the Benaki Museum, in Athens. Cotton thread was dyed in an indigo vat prepared by documenta 14 artist Aboubakar Fofana, and woven into ribbon using the machines that make up the MENTIS donation in what remains a „living workshop museum“ at 6 Polyfimou Street.