Paintings by Wolf Werdigier

Architect, painter, designer, and media artist, Wolf Werdigier, explores the effects of suppressed traumata on the human psyche and the unconscious barriers they form to healing and reconciliation processes. He has worked with Jews and non-Jews in Vienna, Israelis and Palestinians, people in the Balkans, and, most recently, African-Americans and Whites, using psychoanalytic approaches and the “Social Dreaming Matrix” method. Dreams, associations and personal stories gathered in workshops and individual interviews are the basis for his paintings that he considers to be “pathways for the unconscious to reach the conscious”. His works were shown in Austria as well as in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, New York City, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, Ohio. For his exhibition at the Embassy of Austria, Wolf Werdigier has chosen paintings of his most recent project on questions of race and identities in the US.

January 11 | 7:30 pm |  Embassy of Austria
Admission free. RSVP required: 202-895-6776 or via e-mail
Light refreshments will be served.
The exhibition will run through March 29, 2007.