Helmuth James von Moltke

Reconstruction of the movement of Helmuth James Von Moltke prior to the second meeting of Kreisau Circle on 16^th of October 1942, which marked a significant moment in the antifascist resistance, and history of both Krzyzowa and Helmuth James Von Moltke himself. The work is a part of the series of reconstructions of movement of historical actors prior to events which shaped them as historical figures, while their bodies could have be understood as belonging to field of contingencies as opposed to taking part in series of causal events binded by necessity.  The photographic performance is part of larger inquiry in historical contingency, in events which happened but did not need to happen, that in the aftermath change the course of personal and shared histories.  Polaroids record the spaces encountered along these reconstructed trajectories. They act as images made in the present through an attempt to repeat a movement from the past, producing a distance between the historical gesture and its contemporary repetition. What can a reconstructed photographic trace of a moment which held many contingently different futures and outcomes mean for us today, when so many events, futures, contingencies and histories are yet to take place? Can we think of history not as a closed book but as a pool of contingencies and potentials in order to think our present-day moment with its geopolitical and personal stakes, and many roads yet to be taken?