Jessica Mitrani reads Rahel Varnhagen : The Life of a Jewess
by Hannah Arendt, translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Her knowledge, her sufferings, her joys would die with her, but these verses would not die. And they would carry her with them into the future.
And so it is
again and again that rhythm will carry us away, carry us along to the place where those who come after us, no matter what they are like, will learn what we know
Jessica Mitrani (b. 1968, Barranquilla) is a New York–based artist. Mitrani’s multivalent works are concerned with exploring social, linguistic, and aesthetic constructs of the feminine. Her work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and broadcast internationally, including at OCD Chinatown, New York; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York;Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; French Institute Alliance Française, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bogotá Museum of Modern Art MAMBO; Marfa Film Festival, Texas; Medellin Museum of Modern Art MAMM; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; and ARTE1 television network, Brazil. In the fall of 2022, Mitrani was invited faculty at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.