Installation “Shattered Souls … in a Sea of Silence”

They wear the same robes as their brothers in faith, have studied the same holy scriptures and vowed eternal fidelity to the same god.

But their hands concede no blessing, and their words offer no comfort. They are the evil that roams the house of the Lord, tormenting human beings and mocking the Lord by violating His holy commandments. Believers have left the church by the thousands, holding the hands of their children who joined as merry young Christians and came back as broken souls. Ravished, abused, mortified.

They step out into life with a burden on their shoulders that will never vanish. A burden which feels like a stain and silences them because no-one is willing to listen. Not within the family, not in church, where up to the highest ranks unscrupulous accessories hush up and deny every wrongdoing to protect a guilty priest.

With his installation „Shattered Souls“ the artist Dennis Josef Meseg wants to bring home the desperate, silent cries of abused children seeking justice for their maltreated souls to all people. Without exception. Unmistakably.

From 1 to 6 August, on the occasion of this year’s World Youth Day, 333 children-shaped mannequins wrapped in the colours of innocence and the Curia will line up outside Cologne Cathedral.

And silently point to where evil roams…