Art exhibition LIGA TEREZIN focuses on the link between past and future memory. The role of an artist is to participate in the current relay race aimed at passing the memory baton from the past to the future in order to prevent the oblivion. The exhibition’s point of origin is love for the game of soccer taking place all over the Globe as a parallel to the contemporary world of violence and wars, especially, the World War II and the Holocaust of the European Jewry. In our world, LIGA TEREZIN exemplifies an attempt to play on the game of everyday life despite the death looming on the morrow.
At the exhibition, a memory wall will be erected to represent all the teams that played in the ghetto by reprinting their names on the background of the photograph of the Ohre River, where the ashes cremated corpses were thrown down. The other wall shows the contemporary photographs of the Terezin Soccer Club of today. The other space designed as a “changing room” will show drawn, photographed, and written testimonies of the League activities. On the changing room’s wall, on two video screens visitors will be able to view the last match played in the ghetto and shot by the Germans along with the interview with Peter Erben, one of the League’s founders and one of the last ghetto survivors. The work is a part of the combined project in cooperation with Beit-Terezin, Giv'at Haim Ihud.