Invisible Wound is a multi-media installation that commemorates victims of the Gulag prison camps and investigates ways in which the state’s memory shapes its present day political landscape, culture and future. GULAG is an acronym for Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camp in Soviet Union. These forced labor camps were set up in 1929 by the Soviet state with the intention to ‘separate, suppress, or destroy categories of individuals or other enemies of the government and to create a vast pool of slave labor’. Although noone knows exactly the number of people that fell victim to the to the terror of these camps, the estimate is 11 million .
