Exhibition Exploring the Theme of Absence, Loss, Emptiness as the Part of Human Identity

Does experiencing the grief of loss make us insensitive to violence? The loss of a loved one leaves an unhealing wound. After someone's death, the memory of that person is concentrated in objects — fragments of the essence of someone who was once close, but now is nowhere. Objects, truthfully or not, endowed with that person's history, aura, or soul. Objects can hold memory, just as a photograph forever holds the smile of the lost, slipping from memory. The truth is, inside objects, there is no one who is lost. Just as there is no longer any person on earth or under the earth. Death takes the person completely. Death takes everything we knew and everything we understood. Experiencing death in burial rituals, rituals of mourning simplifies the idea of loss, provides guidance in a situation that cannot be understood or accepted. Can art be such guidance?