Mechanical Nike. Resia Schor’s Mixed Media Sculptures on Wars Past and Present
Mechanical Nike. Resia Schor’s Mixed Media Sculptures on Wars Past and Present

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of a hitherto unresearched group of works by the Polish-Jewish artist Resia Schor (1910–2006) dating from the period 1979–1990. Born in Lublin, Schor studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1930 to 1936. In 1938 she emigrated to Paris, from where she and her husband Ilya Schor were forced to escape after the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1941 the Schors settled in New York. It was only in the last decades of her life that Schor began to produce artworks that directly touched upon political topics; those were mixed-media sculptures commenting on wars past and present. By engaging the Benjaminian concept of memory, these works linked the artist’s past – her personal experience of war and loss – with her reaction to contemporary acts of violence.

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