Memoria [EN] No. 29 (2/2020) | Page 23

The exhibition ends amidst a swarm of crows (Corpses/Cadavres); those birds of ill omen that Ceija loved, for she saw them as the incarnation of ‘her’ dead, swirling around her in the camps. In Roma culture, birds can serve as messengers between the dead and the living; in the camps, they must have seemed the last remaining traces of life. They are a key element of the image-memories that Ceija recreated - complex and sometimes with a double meaning, such as this sly, bi-colour, double eye that tries to look back, and asks us not to close our eyes.

Text inspired by the guide written by Marie Cantos in La maison rouge (2018)