Museu d'Art
Contemporani de Barcelona BARCELONA |
SPAIN
APRIL 28,
2017-OCTOBER 15, 2017
In recent
years the little-known research group Forensic architecture began using novel
research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights
abuses. While providing crucial evidence for international courts and working
with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International and the UN,
Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on human rights violations
and state crimes across the globe, it has also given rise to a new form of
investigative practice, to which it has given its name. The group uses
architecture as a methodological device with which to investigate armed
conflicts and environmental destruction, and to cross-reference multiple other
evidence sources such as new media, remote sensing, material investigation and
witness testimony.
This
exhibition introduces the practice, outlining its origins, history,
assumptions, potential and double binds. With these investigations and the
critical texts that accompany them, Forensic Architecture examines how public
truth is produced, technologically, architecturally and aesthetically; how it
can be used to confront state propaganda and secrets; and how to expose newer
forms of state violence.
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