Never Again — Again: Genocide in Rwanda

“We wondered if we could smile again”

— Marie-Grace Mukabyagaju

Nearly 50 years after the Holocaust, long after the world had vowed “Never Again,” another genocide took place. Over the course of 100 days, beginning on April 7, 1994, more than 850,000 Tutsi in Rwanda, Africa, were brutally murdered by their fellow countrymen.

This exhibit includes paintings and testimonies of six survivors of that genocide. Testimony is woven with the artist’s reflections about individual and collective responsibility. The video shifts from the survivors’ testimony to their painted portraits, moving between abstraction and representation. As with the Finding Kalman exhibit, an artist engages with portraits and perspectives to connect with the past, honor the lost and help us feel our humanity.