GOLEMET: Epigenetics

The exhibition Golemet — a female reinterpretation of the Golem of Prague — presents an artistic and conceptual framework that understands transgenerational trauma not as a metaphor, but as a lived, embodied reality. Drawing on contemporary research in epigenetics and trauma studies, the project approaches memory as something inherent in the body — activated in moments of rupture, threat, and renewed exclusion. Golemet unfolds as a collective articulation by Jewish women responding to the reactivation of historically conditioned fear following the events of October 7, 2023 and the subsequent rise of global antisemitism. Rather than producing new narratives of victimhood, the project focuses on how inherited memory resurfaces in the present: in bodily reactions, their effect, and the urgent need for connection, care, and mutual recognition. The exhibition is centered around a manifesto and a set of shared questions developed collectively as part of the artistic process. The figure of Golemet is conceived as an inanimate shell created with the help of Artificial Intelligence into which real testimonies are embedded.