Grey Area: a map sketched in film is the visual response to Snow’s visit to Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial in the summer of 2014 – Dupré and Snow’s preliminary research visit for DORA PROJECT. The title of the film refers to the artist’s response to the complexity of a site with a beautiful landscape yet a horrific past. For the Peckham Platform exhibition, Snow’s film was projected onto Dupré’s, Mapping, Timeline, puncturing the chronological record of events and visually connecting viewers to Dora through time and space. The 5 mins 29 secs film can be viewed here.
The film is a 360-degree pan shot, which splits the concentration camp into six parts, without showing a complete view of the camp. Snow filmed from a fixed point that allows the viewer to see down into and across the historical and Memorial site and its new building.
However, the V2 factory remains hidden in the mountain. The film shows Dora as a restful place permeated with the sound of crickets, which gives, with the wind, a sense of constant movement. Snow focuses on details and traces rather than the site as a whole.
For the artist, the film is a commemorative work. Snow notices and shows what has been left behind. For the artist it is the traces that ask the viewer to look beyond.
Dora Project 