Harare — IN 1989 Germans woke up in the morning to find a wall that was dividing the West and the east demolished.

The fall of the wall symbolised not only the unification of East and West Germany, but also the demise of communism.

The wall had been created to separate the two parties that had different ideologies, the West being capitalistic and the East being communist.

Wikipedia states that:

"At midnight, the police and units of the East German army began to close the border and by Sunday morning, August 13, 1961, the border of West and East Berlin had been created.

"Barbed wire entanglements and fences were installed along the 156 kilometres around the three western sectors and the 43 kilometres which actually divided West and East Berlin.

"Because of the closure of the East-West sector boundary in Berlin, the vast majority of East Germans could no longer travel or emigrate to West Germany. Many families were split, while East Berliners employed in the West were cut off from their jobs; West Berlin became an isolated enclave in a hostile land."

However, these people reached a consensus and managed to break the Berlin wall.

As such the National Art Gallery and a Zimbabwean photographer -- Maxwell Sibanda -- saw it proper to draw parallels between the fall of the Berlin wall and the union among the three main parties Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC.

Just as the Berlin wall was demolished, the inclusive Government was formed.

The exhibition running from November 9 to 30 shows Graffiti (drawings on the walls, of feelings of a certain group) that were put by the Germans in a bid to demonstrate how they felt through art.

One may decide to call it a form of passive resistance of whatever rift had been created by the wall.

Some never saw their relatives ever again and some met after 20 years when the wall had fallen.

Germany Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Albrechit Conze, outlined the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall in his speech.

"Germans all over the world will never forget this moment. We have worked hard to overcome the legacy of partition and many wounds have been healed. Today we find it hard to explain to our children what the wall was about," he said.

As such Zimbabweans although what happened in the past will always be in our hearts the Government of National Unity will help to erase the past and the past shall remain in the past.

On November 27 the gallery will hold a discussion for academics on the Photography done during the period 2004 to 2008.

The 45 must see photographs are a mirror of what art may help to achieve silently.