THE final stage of a remarkable two year programme of exhibitions comes to a powerful conclusion with work by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists.

Yromem is the last of four Lake District Holocaust Project (LDHP) Holocaust and Memory Reframed exhibitions which look at work that explores aspects of Post Holocaust arts and culture and relate to what described as “the representation of the unrepresentational.”

Commissioned by LDHP, the exhibition runs at Windermere Library until November 4 and features the work of Polish artist Miroslaw Balka.

Through deceptively simple gestures Miroslaw Balka uses drawings and constructions that give powerful reflections on ritual, hidden memories and the history of Nazi occupation in Poland. Miroslaw lives in Warsaw and his work deals with both personal and collective memories, especially in relation to his Catholic upbringing and the collective experience of Poland’s fractured history.

Miroslaw has exhibited in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Venice Biennale on a number of occasions, and recently held a retrospective alongside Anselm Kiefer at the astonishing Pirelli Hangar Bicocca exhibition space in Milan.

Sir Nicholas Serota, former head of Tate Modern and now chairman of Arts Council England, describes Miroslaw as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. He says his work is both beautiful and unsettling: "There could be no finer or appropriate context for one of his exhibitions than the Lake District, the spiritual home of English Romanticism, which also has connections to one of the defining moments of human history, the Holocaust.

“Miroslaw’s work is informed by many concerns, but especially the impact of the Holocaust and the identity of communities. Miroslaw grew up in Otwock,

near Warsaw, and his work remains rooted in the place of his birth.”

Director of Lake District Holocaust Project, Trevor Avery, says the Yromem exhibition is a moment of great significance for the project in Windermere. He adds: "Our connection to the child Holocaust Survivors who came in 1945 is both commemorative and educational at its heart. There is also a sense of time passing and Miroslaw is just the best there is at dealing with issues of history, memory, fracture and all carried out with captivating visual and conceptual poetry.”

For further information visit www.ldhp.org.uk.