a kiss it´s not just a kiss
Parece que pelos lados de Berlin, o monumento às vítimas gay do Holocausto foi vandalizado. Um bloco de cimento com um vídeo no interior, da autoria de Elmgreen & Dragset, já andava a provocar algumas comichões. Hoje foi o que se viu.

"In 2003, the German Reichstag (parliament) voted in favor of realizing a monument to commemorate the homosexual victims of the Nazi regime.
Following an international competition in 2006, Berlin based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset’s proposal was selected for realization.
Elmgreen & Dragset have related the aesthetics of the monument to the Holocaust memorial, which is located directly opposite, on the other side of the street. While Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial consists of 2711 concrete stelae (cubic slabs), Elmgreen & Dragset have opted for just one single slab, using the same material, color and proportions as Eisenmann’s, but enlarging it slightly in its overall size to take on the character of a pavilion. Whilst the concrete ‘pavilion’ lacks any exits or entrances, the visitor will through a small, square window be able to watch an endless film loop of two men embracing in a kiss."

"The appropriation of elements borrowed from the Holocaust memorial underlines the similarities in experience of persecution and suffering between the different victim groups, whereas the intimacy of the film loop insists on an identity of its own. Situated on the other side of the street, the work seems to say: “We are the same but we are also different”.