Quote of Note | Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski’s “No Man’s Land,” installed last year at the Park Avenue Armory in New York (Photo: UnBeige)
“I was asked twice to design Holocaust monuments in Germany. I didn’t want to do them, though I liked my idea. If you make a monument in stone, everyone will soon forget what you have commemorated. The city will pay for the monument in order to forget it. What I wanted to do was to make a monument that would have to be remade each month, using very fragile materials, like the little prayer houses that observant Jews construct for Sukkoth.
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