Commentary on the Work
by Andrea Molino

Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice tells of people who are, at the same time, our shadows. They are the faceless ones whom we put to death in the name of a desire for revenge, masqueraded as justice. The nameless ones onto whom we project our incapacity to understand our own dark side. Criminals. Murderers. Non-humans.

"You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; for they stay together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also." (Khalil Gibran, The Prophet)

Those whom we would banish from society or from the human community itself – writes the late American judge William Brennan – often speak in too faint a voice to be heard above society's demand for punishment. In this project we neither seek to make their voice louder, nor to play down the horror of appalling deeds. Rather, for a few moments, with music and images, we want to create a silence, so that they can be heard.