Comments about Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Incommensurable Banner' from the Fabrica comments book:
"It seems totally surreal and makes you realise how lucky we are to live in a non-war zone!! Well done to photographer – need a lot of courage and bravery!"
"It's horrible, these people's lives ruined or ended."
"It shows the suffering that is hidden by the media so well."
"Lovely colours"
"This is all happening now and in our town EDO/MBM in Brighton manufacturing the components that allow this kind of carnage to continue. SHUT THEM DOWN!"
"I've recently graduated on Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Met … My final year dissertation on film, more exactly, the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and its representation in fiction both in Spain and abroad… It's been a long struggle, most of my life, to know and learn about the recent history of my country: this was banned for ages because of Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975)… Still is kind of difficult to talk about this with both of my parents… Still is hard to today for most spaniards to talk about this… Although the images in today's exhibition made me cry, not much seems new to me and yet, tears can't be prevented from coming out of my eyes 'seeing' what human beings still are inflicting onto other human beings … yet (and again) these horrible images, perhaps in a smaller size are shown to us everyday through the media and it seems to me that perhaps we have grown blind and deaf and mute as if our hearts have stopped beating as if we too are dead!"
"Thanks for putting this up in Brighton. This reality needs to be seen."
"This is an important work. Please take away the wall!"
"Shocking but very valid."
"I started out being brave to view these images and halfway along I was suddenly being confronted with a very sick feeling in my stomach (literally a physical sensation of sickness and pain!!) These images are that powerful!! In reality all these are even hundreds of times more shocking and dreadful. Gruesome."
