The Last Supper | Trinity | Jesus | Adam | Eve Maria Djelebova | Fourth International Biennale of contemporary art - Florence, Italy prize in the category New Media | 2003
The Last Supper
There are no people in “The Last Supper” – there are only targets (victims) and people facing
these targets (the shooters), who are also victims. Two opposing viewpoints, two sides pitted
against each other, not wanting to, placed forcibly into the roles of targets and shooters. They
have no choice, everything is predetermined, already decided, not by Fate, but by the New
Dictator who toys with human destinies. The new dictator who destroyed the freedom of choice of
thought, of speech, of life.
We believed in the freedom of the individual; we believed that
dictatorships were a thing of the
past; we were looking for the right track that would lead us to the Truth, be it the faith in
God or the faith in the absence of God; still, in both cases, the faith in the value of human
life. The faith that there can be life without murder, without betrayal, without blood and
violence.
But... the violence, which destroys everyone, reappeared: God, his betrayer, and
his followers.
The violence, which unifies everything: there are no faces, no individuals, all are targets. The
violence, which kills the Savior of mankind and all his disciples. Saints or victims, they are
brought together in the image of the target, shooting and dying at the same time; everyone who
shoots wounds himself first. This war in Ukraine destroyed civilization, destroyed democracy,
destroyed our idea of a time without war, without shooting, without children crying over their
dying mothers, without agonizing murderers cursing themselves, without civilians killed in their
houses.
It destroyed everything that generations had worked for and achieved.
As if we used a time machine and ended up in some old film that is playing in reality and it
takes us back to the time of socialist dictatorship, the time of communist propaganda, of
forbidden speech, of "arrested" thought, of manipulation and lies. Now, all of this is back but
garnished with a lot of blood. There are victims on both sides of the barricades, victims to the
insanity of a megalomaniac, a dictator who has forgotten everything that is human and normal,
who has forgotten the value of human life.
And we are all targets, up against the wall!!!
Is there any hope to believe again that someone will save us?!?