ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some sculptures or installations as three-dimensional artworks to think about their communication to the spectator as an embodied, physical being. It presents an attempt to think about public memorials in relation to trauma and to the possibility or impossibility of mourning. The cubist art works of Braque and Picasso may be thought of as representing fragmentation as the result of trauma. To relate the reflections to the themes of trauma and mourning, in a modish slogan, states T. W. Adorno, "working through the past" is given the contrary meaning of closing the books on the past, or even remove it from memory. Thus the innocent sounding dictum is appropriated for the purpose of killing those murdered a second time, through the destruction of memory, by de-realising the past into a figment of the imagination.
