2021/10/28

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on the “Violence” and “Closure” of Fleeting Images and Funerals

● 28/10/2021
“Some people said, ‘Oh, don’t you think the way that the image disappears is kind of violent?’ Well, that’s exactly what a funeral is … closure.”
– Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on A Crack in the Hourglass (2020), the Mexican-Canadian artist’s COVID-19 memorial that plots ephemeral images of pandemic victims out of grains of sand
The Guardian
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