Dimensions: image: 348 x 522 mm
Copyright: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Zoran Music, born in 1909 and passing in 2009, created this image, titled "We Are Not the Last." Editor: It's unsettling. The dark void looming above these… are those bodies? The texture is rough, almost like ash. Curator: Music was a prisoner at Dachau, and these images depict piles of corpses. This speaks to the dehumanization inherent in genocide, and the struggle to retain humanity in the face of atrocity. Editor: Hands reaching, faces contorted… a universal symbol of suffering. It evokes the mass graves, the unburied dead from countless conflicts throughout history. Curator: Precisely. It’s a bleak commentary on the cyclical nature of violence and systemic oppression, questioning whether humanity ever truly learns from its past. Editor: It's a difficult image, but a necessary one. It forces us to confront the darkness, to remember. Curator: Yes, and perhaps to recognize the echoes of such atrocities in our present.