30 years of remembrance of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
A project by Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard (artistic concept and production) on the initiative of and in cooperation with Ancilla Umubyeyi.
A black hole that absorbs all matter and even light is immense – and just as immense is humanity in its nameless cruelty. What do we know about a person of whom only the name remains? And what if even that is forgotten and they are represented only by an abstract number?
This project is the beginning of a remembrance project, a work in progress, whose goal is to record as many names of the victims as possible over the next five years and to complete the name column. In addition, the three pillars of remembrance at Yppenplatz with their thematic focuses are to be artistically realized as artifacts in virtual space. The memorial work is planned to be completed by the 35th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in 2029, and the name column is to be present already during the project duration in Bunker 16, in the Brunnenpassage, and in the Artificial Museum.