BLACK ON WHITE
Exhibition view: Obala Art Centre, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Curator Izeta Gradjevic), 1998.
Description
64 apples
459 kindergarden chairs
245 exhumated
3 steaks
17.003 million dollars
48 pairs of shoes
200,000 refugees
36 women
1 envelope
10,000 missing people from Srebrenica
215 years
5 necklaces
8.17 sedimentation rate
2856 ill
4 mountain peaks
123 corpses
86,500 ants
54 ashtrays
36 percentages
1 shoemaker
5 nails
34, 563 potatoes
28th part of a second
36,500 invalids of war
37 lizards
478 items
2,945 raped woman
9 mosquitoes
896 spaghetti
5.5 promils
368 devastated houses
839,021 Yens
73 shirts
4 hairs
1 Anne Frank
49,000 victims
231 paintbrushes
598 green pea grains
6,720 died
22 cities
38 photographs
2 wars
502 paper clips
7 glasses
BLACK ON WHITE
The main idea of this work is to make the viewer aware of the human incapacity for understanding numbers, especially when they are over 100 and dealing with tragedies. The numbers of victims, refugees, people who died that we come across in news every day do not mean anything to us anymore. They become almost as abstract and ‘harmless’ as a shopping list.