On the green space next to the Kretzulescu Church in Bucharest, 1166 electric candles in the form of calla lilies “burned” every evening between November 8 and 15, in memory of the victims of the 1989 Revolution.
The project called “Infographic of Innocence” was the idea of Funky Citizens Association.
Designer Răzvan Pascu said that he wanted to do “something else about communism.”
“I wanted to make an infographic with the figures of the Revolution because the discourse about them is either dry or macabre. This is how the Infographic of Innocence appeared in Kretzulescu Park, practically in Revolution Square, where the Bucharest revolt began.”
“The goal is to turn back the gloomy way of reporting to December ’89, to see it again as a moment of fertile, bright nation-building, born of an innocent sacrifice,” the initiator wrote on Facebook.
“Could we see this defining moment as a holiday, as a source of social energy?”
“The memory of the 1989 Revolution means victims, files, and numbers today. We have the number of bullets, the number of martyrs, and the number of articles in the Proclamation of Timisoara. But do we know who they are? Do we still know what people wanted? Do we still hope what they hoped for? We know the number of heroes, but do we still know their struggle, their optimism and their innocence? The infographic of innocence deals with the tension between data and humanity, on which I invite you to meditate from its midst,” Răzvan Pascu explained.
Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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