Jaro Varga, Smuggling the Past into This Brief Moment / Interview for ASYMPTOTE by Eva Heisler
I Found It Somewhere, but I Cannot Find It. This is the enigmatic title of several projects produced by Prague-based Jaro Varga between 2013 and 2021. The first iteration has the artist, a newcomer to the town of Martin, Slovakia, asking residents the whereabouts of the Holocaust Memorial, a memorial that does not exist but for which the artist receives directions. The memorial is recalled but nowhere to be found. For each site said to bear a memorial plaque, the artist const