Jahrhunderts) is a monumental installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys from 1983, at the Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin.
It consists of large, oblong pieces of basalt, all of which have a conical hole bored into them at one end.
The rocks evoke bones or corpses, and in their random alignment could produce the sensation in a viewer that "the state of the world is beyond control".
[1] This inevitably brings to mind Beuys' experiences during World War II, in which he served as a Luftwaffe pilot and many of his family members were killed.
[1] However, the materials of clay and felt symbolize potential growth and "suggest the possibility of new life emerging at the end of a dark century".