These black & white and color diptychs invite the viewer to travel through time and develop his personal thoughts and feelings regarding the brutality of the SS concentration camps.
“The book ‘KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS’ is a collection of three testimonies regarding the concentration camps, written by three German SS men. It was the starting point of my work, in which I record everything I witnessed during my actual visit to the camps, after having read these testimonies. This book was what inspired me to go and see hell and the beastliness of man, face to face. My journey will produce 20 black & white and colour diptychs. Because my approach to these images is descriptive, I did not want any caption or text to accompany them. What word is there to describe such wretchedness? We are obliged to look at this human mystery straight in the eye, this huge paradox created by a human being that, while being endowed with sensitivity by nature, has proven capable of committing such a gruesome brutality. We must always remember this brutality. In this case, the picture describes but it does not narrate. I present isolated images that combine diptychs as a series of images that travel through time and space, inviting the viewer to develop his own specific vision and personal thoughts. The black & white images invite us to imagine and travel in the past, while colour brings us back to present and this complexity forms a visual context in which we travel and through which I force all of us to put captions to my images and execute both my and your duty to remember.”
