HF-03 · Statement work

Holocaust

The machinery of persecution

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Holocaust, mixed-metal sculpture by Henry Friedman
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The machinery of persecution

Industrial forms and charged symbols confront the dehumanizing systems of Nazi persecution. The work asks viewers to consider what happens when human lives are reduced to mechanisms and numbers.

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