About the subject

What happens when death becomes bleached out of the loss, the suffering, the humanity? It becomes a polished image, a symbol at most: propaganda. This piece is inspired by the omnipresent Pietà by Michelangelo; however it refuses to frame death through the lenses of morality and beauty and focuses instead on evoking the visceral pain of loss we have so long lost by looking at images of wars, catastrophes, famines and all sort of suffering.

Not only social media, but the news outlets before them have desensitized us to a point where empathy at suffering has faded to a point where the very glance at tragedies can evoke nothing and the narratives surrounding these images can have a disconnect and still touch us. Why is that? I think the answer is plain: because life is worth nothing to us anymore.