“Ojos vendados. Tortura y representación en la cultura visual contemporánea” par Juan Albarrán (Dado ediciones, 2023) est une étude sur la représentation de la torture dans l’art contemporain et la culture visuelle et, plus particulièrement, sur les tensions entre les stratégies visant à rendre visible cette grave atteinte aux droits de l’homme et les dynamiques de dissimulation qui ont opéré dans l’Espagne démocratique.
Torture
Release of the book – Ojos vendados de Juan Albarrán
“Ojos vendados. Tortura y representación en la cultura visual contemporánea” by Juan Albarrán (Dado Ediciones, 2023) is a study on the representation of torture in contemporary art and visual culture and, specifically, on the tensions between the strategies for making this serious attack on human rights visible and the dynamics of concealment that have operated in democratic Spain.
Disaster: art, ethics and politics – A conversation
Juan Albarrán Diego and Carles Guerra were invited to dialogue about the issue of violence and its representations in the framework of the program “Evocations of Ruin”, which questions the absences and ethical failures of the Spanish democracy when it deals with its past of war and dictatorship.
