So much Love and Compassion

Can images enlighten and change the world? How do photography and sculpture relate to violence, to experiences of oppression, separation and loss? With its new exhibition at the Villa, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Alexander Tutsek Foundation) is showing works that see themselves as social engagement, as a public conversation about things that have taken place in secret. They tell of suffering and at the same time of the power to resist, of love and compassion.

Two women artists are presented, both of whom suffered under the terror of the military dictatorship in Argentina, the period from 1976 to 1983, during which more than 30,000 people disappeared. One, Silvia Levenson, born in Buenos Aires in 1957, who lost family members, fled, then 23 years old, with her husband and two children. The other, Adriana Lestido, born in 1955 also in Buenos Aires, whose husband was kidnapped and disappeared forever, stayed in the country. In exile in Italy, Levenson discovered the material glass to express her artistic and political concerns, Lestido took up the camera.

Last edited on 12.02.2025