ARTist as witness

Reimagining the Artist as Witness to History

We must represent the intolerable in such a way that it can be visible. That is really the big question of our times.

Alfredo Jaar

Conversation with the artist:

I realized art would allow me to communicate something that society didn’t want to talk about. To show people something of the horror that perhaps couldn’t be put into words.

Gottfried Helwein

Conversation with the artist:

Painting pains me. And it will pain you. We join in sorrow so that silenced violence will find its echo in our spirit not by imagination but through an artistic vision.

Bracha Ettinger

Conversation with the artist:

I would argue that what art can reflect, at its best, is the awareness we have an enormous potential to transform without doing harm and that we have the real and tangible capacity to recreate this reality.

Chantal Meza

Conversation with the artist: