(Im)perfect Views of Representation

The multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture, which uses architectural techniques and technologies to examine cases of human rights violations, explores the continued survival of archaeological heritage in Palestine in Living Archaeology in Gaza. By aligning all available images and digitally excavating millennia-old remains, it demonstrates the fragile persistence of Palestinian heritage and history after decades of bombardment.

In today’s wars, nothing remains hidden. Helicopters fly over the Middle East equipped with powerful thermal cameras. At night, soldiers locate people identified as enemies, transformed into spectral traces. Filmmaker and theatre director Eléonore Weber investigates nocturnal images of war to write an essay on contemporary conflicts. By analysing videos and listening to testimonies, she reflects on the capacity to see and be seen, on the reasoning of those who fight and on their extreme dehumanisation.

Miquel Martí Freixas