George Segal: the Holocaust, 1984

ArtForum, Feb, 1999 by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit

It was of course the Nazis who insisted on absolute difference, on the uniqueness both of themselves and of those they slaughtered. A fitting memorial to the victims of that murderous illusion must perhaps include a certain blurring of the Holocaust's distinctness, even a forgetting of its specialness, so that we will be unable to ignore our closeness to it.

Everything communicates within the universal solidarity of being - a truth that may inspire efforts to reimagine the human community, but that should also alert us to the proximity of horror. There is only one space, and everything is "in touch" within it. The Holocaust's space is our own.