They Give Evidence

Dadang Christanto had an installation piece at the AGNSW. On the left is a 1996 piece, called "They Give Evidence". Sixteen larger-than-life male and female figures, representing displaced victims, mutely carry the bodies of innocent men, women and children who have been killed. A moving testament to the inhumanity of man in a monument of communal grief. Oppression and social injustice is sad. I can know this, but what are the chances of my knowing it as a reality? Walking through the sculptures brought me a bit closer to the empathizing with the pain.