This exhibition, presented as part of Krakow Photomonth, features two photographic series by German artist Annette Kelm that explore how objects carry historical memory. In Die Bücher, Kelm photographs early editions of books that were banned or burned by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Shot against a neutral background, the covers appear almost like portraits, restoring visibility to authors and designers whose work was suppressed while reflecting on books as fragile carriers of ideas, memory and cultural survival.

The exhibition also includes Travertinsäulen Recyclingpark Neckartal, a series documenting monumental stone columns originally commissioned in 1936 for a Nazi monument in Berlin that was never built. By photographing these abandoned structures in their current surroundings near Stuttgart, Kelm reveals how objects shaped by ideology can outlive the regimes that created them. Together, the two series examine the relationship between photography, material culture and the ways societies remember—or attempt to erase—the past.