Making a show of lost love

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

BERLIN (AFP) — When the love affair is over and the angry words of recrimination have faded into the air, what better way to dull the pain than to put on display the tokens of that lost passion?

The 250 exhibits in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Berlin are ordinary items with poignant stories attached, such as a pen used to write the now bitterly regretted love letters or the bike a man left on, never to return.

The exhibition is the brainchild of Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic, two Croatian artists who split up after living together for four years.

"We asked ourselves how we could wipe away this painful period of our past," Vistica told AFP.

The artists decided to collect objects from their relationship and put them on show in Croatia,...