A short follow up on from the earlier posting on Evidentiary Realism as today there is a review of the remarkable work of Lawrence Abu Hamden’s work in today’s Guardian to coincide with his show as part of this year’s Turner Prize shortlisted artists.
Abu Hamden is a frequent contributor to Forensic Architecture’s investigative installations as well as having a rich independant practice. His work that focuses on sound (and silence) has some of the most powerful emotional impact of the ‘evidential movement’. Whilst working alongside an architect to draw on sound memories of former blind folded prisoners to build picture of the prison traslating 3D imaging that forms the centre piece of the Amnesty report. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/saydnaya https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/01/silence-or-death-turner-finalist-lawrence-abu-hamdan-on-recreating-a-horrific-syrian-jail David Garcia # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
