Due to the Covid situation, please download an entrance pass to help us improve our on-site service process. There is no time limit for visiting the exhibition, you can stay as long as you like after entering. Visitors without an entrance pass will also be able to enter the exhibition, however collecting the pass will prevent queuing. The witnesses of domestic violence against women are not only the people directly involved in the drama.
They are also the silent four walls and the everyday companions surrounding the situation β objects such as a toothbrush, kitchen cloth, shoes or a pillow. The first Latvian part of the exhibition presented objects and stories entrusted to the artists by Latvian women who have experienced domestic violence.
An important part of the project was a marathon of reading the testimonies of violence, in which besides the participants of the project also their friends, sisters, mothers and people offering them support took part.
The reading and the exhibition was a symbolic act of breaking the silence around violence against women. The Polish edition of the exhibition is supported by two organizations working against violence against women: Autonomia Foundation and Feminoteka Foundation. For us, as a public cultural institution, this slogan is a commitment: the mission of the theater is to provide space for dialogue and discussion on the most difficult issues.
One of such topics is the problem of violence against women in families and relationships. We believe that the Physical Evidence Museum project will contribute to making the voice of women who have experienced violence heard. It is an exhibition of things and everyday objects that have witnessed domestic violence against women and that we have collected with the help of many women from Latvia.
