"This work is almost a picture. It is a snapshot of a moment in time. It is a plea against brutality and darkness."

(text fragment in the electronics)

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When the city of Guernica was bombed in 1937, pictures of its ruins were sent to Adolf Hitler as a birthday present (Attlee, 2022). Pablo Picasso captured the horrendous attack in his painting, which now hangs in the Museo de Reina Sofía in Madrid. When I visited the famous painting, I was shocked by the contrast between the violent display on the canvas and the lightness of the tourists taking selfies in front of it — making heart and thumbs-up gestures, smiling and joking. This multitude of layers, these contrasts and impressions are the base of the work.