Juergen Klauke
Hall Collection
The large-scale installation Antilitze (Faces) (1972/2000) by the German photographer Jürgen Klauke is comprised of 96 found newspaper images of masked individuals. This archive of images includes the 1972 Munich Olympic terrorists, eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September, and expands to include grassroots anti-nuclear protestors, and later jihadists, amongst members of other movements and geopolitical conflicts. The assembly of monochromatic masked faces – equally cropped, scaled and arranged by Klauke – have hidden motivations and geographic ties, while the specifics of their identities, races and genders are equally concealed. What the subjects of Antilitze share are a common thread around the politics of visibility, and participation in a mounting global threat that cannot be addressed by individualized punishment alone.