The dialogue, or rather its next iteration, between painters Slawomir Elsner and Uwe Wittwer was inspired by Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing (Decalogue V) and the news of war and humanitarian crises percolating through everyday life. In addition to three works in the format of an old TV set that directly refer to scenes from the film, the exhibition includes works that allude to the iconography of St. George, St. Michael, but also a vanitas still life, a scene of the slaughter of innocents, or paintings of a starscape in which various mythologies are embedded, though also a possible last glimpse before death of a soldier hit by a bullet. More than a story or a lecture on death, the juxtaposition of these images brings to mind as much the chaotic as the persistent search for ways to familiarize killing as part of our reality. This multifaceted meaning of the tragedy of violent death includes questions of human dignity, violence, the suffering of victims, meaning and meaninglessness, the banality of evil, loss, witnessing, forgetting and remembering. All of this is impossible to come to terms with despite its unstoppable return to each of us. Just as anxiety numbs speech, witnessing causes the existential perplexity of not being able to convey what death was. The first death is always the death of another person. The paintings go further than a simple description, but at the same time the encapsulated impression in the visual composition shields from the unbearable.