We view the horrors that take place throughout the world on a daily basis and our knowledge of what is happening in neighboring countries makes us responsible for our ignorance, our passivity and our indifference. And yet, our ultimate response is a floating feeling of total incapacity!
How can we live in a world where daily disasters are continuously broadcast? What responsibility do we bear for the availability of such knowledge? Do we enjoy observing the 'pain of others' from a position removed in time and space? What is being communicated and what is not being transmitted? Are armed conflicts a new source of entertainment? Why and how do the media participate in this paradox? And what is so exotic about war, anyway?
Looking at this work makes us watch ourselves watching and provides an interactive space that engages our imagination. Regardless of the work's context and through its aesthetic quest, it calls on our emotions and inner contradictions. It wants to reveal the absurdity of human existence in this world that we're sharing.
*Susan Sontag
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