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Two traffic signs for Oswiecim (synonymous with Auschwitz) are placed in the gallery with a few paces between them. The first sign would tell a traveller that they were entering Oswiecim. The second sign, with its diagonal red line, would tell the traveller that they were leaving Oswiecim or that Oswiecim no longer existed. The two traffic signs would thus serve as two moments in our history and as two frames in a movie. The interval between the two frames in this sequence and all other sequences of images is where the viewer imagines and creates meaning.