Artist Shames Tourists Taking Inappropriate Selfies At The Holocaust Memorial Site In Berlin (NSFW)
Israeli artist Shahak Shapira has seen enough of these disrespectful selfies taken in the absolute worst places for them. So he launched an art project called
“Yolocaust
” in hopes to shame the selfie-takers from the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
“Over the last years, I noticed an interesting phenomenon at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin: people were using it as a scenery for selfies. So I took those selfies and combined them with footage from Nazi extermination camps,” Shapira wrote. He gathered the selfies from the social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, and Grindr, and then combined them with the hard-to-watch real footage from concentration camps. The artist was shocked by just how distanced from the actual meaning of the monument its visitors were, which is illustrated with the comments, hashtags and “likes” that were posted with the selfies.
“About 10,000 people visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe every day. Many of them take goofy pictures, jump, skate or bike on the 2,711 concrete slabs of the 19,000 m? large structure,” Shapira wrote. “The exact meaning and role of the Holocaust Memorial are controversial. To many, the grey stelae symbolize gravestones for the 6 Million Jews that were murdered and buried in mass graves, or the grey ash to which they were burned to in the death camps.”
Prijevod
Umjetnik sramoti turiste koji snimaju
neprikladne selfije na Memorijalnom mjestu holokausta u Berlinu (NSFW)
Izraelski umjetnik Shahak Shapira vidio je
dovoljno ovih "selfieja" bez poštovanja snimljenih na apsolutno najgorim mjestima
za njih. Stoga je pokrenuo umjetnički projekt pod nazivom "Yolokaust"
u nadi da će posramiti one koji snimaju selfije sa Memorijala holokaustu u
Berlinu.
“Proteklih godina primijetio sam zanimljiv
fenomen na memorijalu holokausta u Berlinu: ljudi su ga koristili kao
scenografiju za selfije. Pa sam snimio te selfije i kombinirao ih sa snimkama
iz nacističkih logora istrebljenja”, napisao je Shapira. Sakupio je selfije s
društvenih mreža poput Facebooka, Instagrama, Tindera i Grindra, a zatim ih
kombinirao s teško gledljivim stvarnim snimkama iz koncentracijskih logora.
Umjetnik je bio šokiran koliko su njegovi posjetitelji bili udaljeni od
stvarnog značenja spomenika, što je ilustrirano komentarima, hashtagovima i
lajkovima koji su objavljeni uz selfije.
“Svakodnevno Memorijal ubijenim Židovima
Europe posjeti oko 10.000 ljudi. Mnogi od njih snimaju glupe slike, skaču,
klizaju ili voze bicikl na 2.711 betonskih ploča 19.000 m? velike građevine”,
napisao je Shapira.
“Točno značenje i uloga Memorijala holokaustu su
kontroverzni. Za mnoge, sive stele simboliziraju nadgrobne spomenike za 6
milijuna Židova koji su ubijeni i pokopani u masovnim grobnicama, ili sivi
pepeo u koji su spaljeni u logorima smrti.”