Approximately 30 Sudanese women lie face-down on a white canvas on the ground, simulating dead bodies piled on top of one another. The bodies, darkened by make-up, will remain motionless with eyes shut as Beecroft covers the canvas and the women's bodies with a wide horizontal stroke of red paint.
Inspired by Actionism, the performance and body art movement prominent in 1960s and 1970s Vienna, Beecroft's aims are at once artistic and political. The performance serves as a graphic representation of the ongoing violent massacres in Africa, particularly the genocide happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. The graphic nature of the performance is a critique on the public's desensitization to brutality due to the mass dissemination of images of war and violence in the media.
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