The Past Is A Foreign Country asked; What is it to be human today. Through drawings, large scale installations, film, and animation Anita Groener explored the tissue of trauma and loss rooted in this question. Anita Groener makes work for what still needs language, experimenting with both figurative and abstract geography. The deliberately modest means of the work (twigs, paper, pins, twine and gouache) speak to the fragility of life and society that refugee crises expose. Her art asks questions about the ethics of witnessing atrocity and aesthetic response.