Memory, history and migration are natural subjects for Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca, the grandson of Russian immigrants who fled the pogroms of the early twentieth century. This painting addresses Kuitca's position as an artist of Jewish background in overwhelmingly Catholic Argentina. The tensely juxtaposed symbols - the menorah and the cross - intensify the highly charged psychology of the vacant stage set, evoking feelings of angst, emptiness, and loss. This sense of absence may allude to the "disappearance" of political dissidents in Argentina - among whom Jews figure disproportionately - and that of Jews and others in Europe during the Holocaust.