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"Kurbani" is the first figure that shows up in this necrographic series. It is a film by the artist Gerta Xhaferaj which stimulates reflections on the value system and socio-cultural worldview where the act of sacrifice is constituted. The deeply rooted belief of humans in transcendence is the background from which sacrifice as a religious ritual emerges. Sacrifice as a signifier operates a division that cuts through the essence of human beings. A human is believed to be a being which carries a contradiction in his core. Half essence, half accident, half soul, half body, and half animal, half deity, both mortal and eternal: halving depicts the existential state of humans and explains their anxiety to be replenished. The gratification of the human essence occurs when its accident is thrown away. The accidens of humans is their animal being. This reunion of man with himself requires a ritual, a gesture to symbolize the attainment of pure human essence. The animal sacrifice represents the separation of man from his animal burden. It is the act of purifying the human essence from the flesh. With the sacrifice of the animal within him, what remains of man is only pure essence. By sacrificing the body, man believes in regaining his spiritual essence. The believer of the soul becomes free to lay down at the divine banquet, where together with God the Almighty, he celebrates the victory of the heavenly over the earthly, of the soul against the body, of timelessness over the temporary. But with this operation of expelling the animal from himself, man internalizes this externality more than ever, and the difference between him and the animal is blurred even more. Paradoxically, the greater the distance that man seeks to establish between himself and the animal, the more he resembles to a beast. On the contrary, an animal ready to be sacrificed overwhelms us with its innocence. This becoming animal of humans and this spiritual becoming of the sacrificed animal are two simultaneous sensory series that constitute the aesthetical affect of the “Kurban” event. By aborting their dark animal burden, humans seek the divine light, all clothed in the darkness of slaughter. The power of the images of this ritual is to shed light on this added darkness of man when he seeks to approach his essence. Animal abortion marks an abort in human aesthetics.

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