"we have art in order not to die of the truth"
Fredrich nietzsche

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:

If you are one of three hundred enslaved Africans, each individually tossed overboard a slave ship, death is a solitary “becoming.” Somebody wanted you to “disappear,” and that is something they needed you to do alone. And those architects of your death wanted a sea of amnesia to wash over the memory of your disappearance.

John Akomfrah

Conversation with the artist:

We kill our Gods over and over to justify our obligation in celebrating their eternal return, even if only in secularized form.

Jake Chapman

Conversation with the artist:

Many more artists featured in our "conversations" section

Robert Longo
Artist as Witness
New York
September 2011

"we have art in order not to die of the truth" Fredrich nietzsche

Robert Longo Artist as Witness New York September 2011

Chantal Meza On Disappearance Mexico June 2021

"we have art in order not to die of the truth"
Fredrich nietzsche

Robert Longo
Artist as Witness
New York
September 2011

Chantal Meza
On Disappearance
Mexico
June 2021