Tracing Shadows

SPITALE - VKU

WURZBURG, Germany

An international project of the artist and the poet,

Dafna Rehavia & David Ian Hanauer

Tracing Shadows invites voices, memories, echoes, and emotions from both past and present to surface, be witnessed, and shared.

Through sculpture, installation, fiber art, screen printing, video, poetry, and handwritten text, the artists engage with the psychological echoes of familial and inherited trauma. The works do not attempt to resolve these histories, not the present times, but rather to acknowledge their presence —the on going violence, and to trace the shadows they cast across bodies, relationships, and cultures.

Mirroring or confronting experiences of violence, loss, and silence, the exhibition opens a space for empathy and reflection. It proposes that growth can emerge through acts of recognition, exposure, and care. In this way, Tracing Shadows becomes a bridge between past and present, personal memory and collective experience, inviting a shared dialogue that honors vulnerability, resilience, and the possibility of repair.

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen