PEI Obert: Bodies of Evidence. A lecture by Ido Nahari and Adam Broomberg

In the second day of Open PEI, writer and researcher Ido Nahari and artist, activist and educator Adam Broomberg bring us Bodies of Evidence, a lecture that analyses the circulation and functioning of violent images of past and present genocides. The debate revolves around the new fundamentalist grammar created for this documentation.

From Gaza to Namibia, Nahari and Broomberg trace the visual techniques of villainisation and glorification to address how images of war both define the moral limits of violence and play an integral role in its enactment. Central to this discussion is how such documentation creates a new fundamentalist grammar, alongside the visualisation of affliction – war-torn bodies of vulnerable victims set against seemingly invulnerable invaders – and how these optics sanctify certain forms of life while devaluing others.

PEI Obert is an open lecture series taking place at MACBA, Barcelona. Find recordings and learn more here.

Bodies of Evidence. © Adam Berry

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