Artists confront who has the right to tell whose story, and what responsibilities storytelling entails.
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Floor, Legs
Representation is staged as a constructed, withholding object rather than transparent evidence, with the blacked-out portrait in Floor, Legs forcing meaning to arise from the viewer’s projections and the limits of legibility. By oscillating between found and composed images, Lassry critiques authorship and documentary truth, aligning photography with poststructural skepticism toward “the real” and emphasizing the image as a material trace of a past presence rather than access to it.
Forensic truth is staged at the “threshold of detectability,” where holes, pixels, and grain become contested epistemic objects and “negative evidence” weaponizes absence to sever matter from memory and testimony. By linking Holocaust denial’s evidentiary tactics to drone-war visibility regimes (degraded satellite resolution, Glomarization, media sieges), the text critiques how state and legal-technical apparatuses manage what can be seen and said, while proposing forensic architecture as an aesthetic-political practice that re-entangles images, built space, and risky witness accounts into networked proof.
How to be Responsible Irresponsibly: On Art Beyond Immediacy
A critique of late-capitalist “immediacy” and its moralized demand for legible political efficacy, arguing that contemporary art’s confessional, representational, and discourse-saturated tendencies risk collapsing mediation into self-affirming content and turning responsibility into a disciplinary power.
“Responsible irresponsibility” names an alternative ethic-aesthetic: defend imagination’s autonomy while situating it within social histories, reviving subtext, formal complexity, and hybrid genres (e.g., speculative memoir) to short-circuit polarized binaries (political/apolitical, mediation/immediacy, realism/nonrealism) and reopen art’s emancipatory capacity beyond instrumentalization.
A conceptual fable of radical impermanence frames authorship and historical memory as unstable constructs: Neuestern’s 24-hour recall and self-erasing practice propose an “absolute” reached through transparency, symmetry, and the paradoxical “non-act” of creating from scratch.
Through silent slides oscillating between white/black and opacity/transparency, García Torres mobilizes archival absence and reenactment to critique art-historical canon formation, foregrounding time, uncertainty, and the void as constitutive conditions of meaning.