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May 23 2009

Kathryn Cook – The memory of trees

Kathryn Cook puts her trust in trees, the earth and the roads taken by
the Armenians to pose questions on their genocide by the Young
Turks. Cook does not intend making accusations with her work, but
trying rather to understand, to penetrate the mysterious story of the
Armenian people, whose â?`disappearanceâ?? began in
Istanbul on the night of 23 April 1915. Members of the Armenian elite
were arrested then transported to the interior of Anatolia and
massacred on the road, along with about a million others so as not to
leave any trace. Kathryn Cook went in search of these traces,
travelling through Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Armenia. She
looked for what remained of the Armenian churches, on the roads taken
by these people, to the now Kurdish village of Agacli (populated by
Armenians 95 years ago), which in Turkish means â?`place with
trees’. Trees thus become a metaphor for this extensive research in
memory of an entire people, through an inquisitive and subtle eye.

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