Body double: portraits, memory, and the face of evil

A central argument about representation and the Holocaust circles around the impossibility to represent it and its magnitude or as the unspeakable. Against this challenge artist Christine Borland's "L,Homme Double" a likeness of Josef Mengele was included in what became a controversial exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York. Borland's installation is at the kernel of the long-standing debate concerning the taboo against images that represent the unspeakable