Zabou CARRIÈRE Elements after crimes, 44.86°N... Lot 47

Zabou CARRIÈRE Elements after crimes, 44.86°N 16.77°E, #4 Year of production: 2014-2019 Material: pigment prints on fine art paper Hahnemülhe Ultra Smooth 305 g mounted on dibond Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm Biography, presentation of artistic approach: Born on February 8, 1969 in Paris, Zabou Carrière lives and works in Paris. December 2013, the excavations are completed in the mass grave of Tomašica in the Serbian Republic of Bosnia. Some six hundred people were buried there, making it the largest mass grave discovered in Europe since the Second World War. Zabou Carrière, who had followed the excavations, returned to it. Elements after crimes, 44.86°N 16.77°E show water, mud, stones, plants, so many elements of nature of an apparent banality. Their scale is not clearly perceptible, the images without perspective. The shots are taken from a dive, directed towards the ground. Rather than landscapes, surfaces are shown, the very ones that had to be dug up to remove the remains of the dead people sought for twenty years. The photographs suggest rather than show horror. One image points to a scarred sky, indecisive between sun and clouds. It is also beautiful and warm in this region. Vegetation has covered the overturned land, water has filled the pits, the excavators in charge of extracting them no longer cover the songs of the birds. The landscape has been modified by the interventions of man and has finally revealed its secrets. The scene of the crimes exists in the collective memory and yet not much is visible there anymore. "Grass is not disgusted to grow in these cursed campaigns," Vladimir Jankélévitch wrote about Auschwitz. Website: http:/ /zaboucarriere.com/ Location of the work: Paris - Availability of the work: May 2020