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 His brother Gregory, a firefighter, died in the line of duty
in the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Saucedo's work is part of an upcoming exhibit, “Rendering the
Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11,” in which 13 New York
City-based artists explore their reactions to the airplane
attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people died.
"We thought, there needs to be another way in to remembering,
and we realized that art is another way in," Alice M. Greenwald,
director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, said on Thursday.
"It gives you that immediacy of the emotional truth of that
moment, and you see through another person's eyes and through
their artistic practice, how they struggled with the very same
emotions that all of us felt."
The exhibit stands as a counterpoint to the museum's permanent
exhibitions, which tell the story of the Sept. 11 attacks and
commemorate those who died with wrenchingly familiar sights as
well as artifacts.
The art ranges broadly in form, from paintings and sculptures to
works on paper and video.
Saucedo, for instance, pressed linen pulp on handmade paper to
create "World Trade Center as a Cloud," which comprises three
panels, each 40 by 60 inches.
American painter, sculptor Eric Fischl, who lost a friend in the
attacks, is displaying a bronze sculpture, "Tumbling Woman."
The three founding members of performance art company Blue Man
Group made "Exhibit 13," a four-minute video of burnt papers,
letters, business forms and personal notes that blew from the
World Trade Center into the yard of their rehearsal space in
Brooklyn.
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Chris Wink, co-founder of the group and original Blue Man, said
creating the video was a way of processing the attacks.
"We didn't know how we could go back to our sort of comedic work
given what we were feeling and what was going on," Wink told
Reuters.
Wink said the real purpose of the video was to provide people with a
gentler, more reflective space that was less alarmist than what
people were seeing in the news.
"It's like each piece of paper represents a different story, a
different community, a different system, a different life
interrupted," Wink said, noting that he will be taking his kids to
the exhibit.
"Memorializing is very important to people directly affected, but,
of course, who wasn't affected indirectly?"
“Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11,” is the first
major special exhibition for the museum. It will open to the public
on Sept. 12.
(Reporting by Melissa Fares in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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