We invite you to the 24th SURVIVAL Art Review, held under the theme “A Finger in the Heart,” which will take place from June 26 to June 30 at the former Clinic of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases complex (ul. Bujwida 44, Wrocław).
This time we will reflect on the theme “Finger in the Heart.” The curatorial team—Michał Bieniek, Daniel Brożek, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, and Ewa Pluta—write in their curatorial statement:
The eponymous Finger in the Heart emerges at the intersection of science, violence, ignorance, and emotion. It directly refers to a plaster cast of the finger of the legendary Wrocław cardiac surgeon Wiktor Bross, whose research and pioneering operations were conducted at the Clinics.
In the historical description of the space, Ewa Pluta writes:
From its inception, several renowned psychiatrists and neurologists worked at the clinic, foremost among them Alois Alzheimer, the celebrated researcher of memory degeneration. In 1912, he assumed the chair of the university’s Department of Psychiatry and the position of clinic director. Although his groundbreaking research on the “disease of forgetfulness” had already been published by the time he arrived in Wrocław, it initially had little impact on the scientific community.
