To mark the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks, the 9/11 memorial museum is staging a major special exhibition. It features New York artists who have transformed a day of terror into works of both grief and tenderness.
Brutal reality still dominates the display opening on September 12. Scorched and torn business papers from the collapsing towers and radio transmissions from the fiery pit are part of the collection titled Rendering the Unthinkable.
The exhibition was assembled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which oversees two reflecting pools bearing the names of nearly 3,000 people who died in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In a video clip, a young woman washes her father’s shirt — soiled from three days spent working in the smoking World Trade Centre rubble.
