BURKHARD SCHITTNY, Fineart
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ERLEDIGT
LEGACY PROJECTS 2023
Stamp ink on watercolour paper / Wooden frame / 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in) / Series of 6 unique works / Wall-mounted / 1 + 1 AP each
INSTALLATION VIEW at Unter den Eichen Concentration Camp Memorial, Wiesbaden
INTRODUCTION
The work brings together portraits of the Luxembourgish victims of the bombing of the Unter den Eichen concentration camp on 18 December 1944. The faces are composed from the repeated impressions of a rubber stamp bearing the word “Erledigt” (Completed).
From a distance, the portraits of the victims emerge; from close up, each individual stamp impression reveals itself as a symbol of the dehumanising bureaucracy of the Nazi regime, which knowingly accepted the deaths of forced labourers.
Created as a site-specific project for Wiesbaden, the work takes this historical location as its point of departure to examine the reduction of human beings to a bureaucratic procedure and the devaluation of human life.
INSPIRATION (Information panel, Unter den Eichen Concentration Camp Memorial, Wiesbaden)
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