BRODSKY AND ACTIVE MEMORY AT ZIELINSKY
By Álvaro de Benito
Zielinsky presents Traces of Violence, an exhibition that brings together the most recent work by Marcelo Brodsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1954). The show consists of a series of historical photographs taken during the genocide that occurred in Namibia at the beginning of the last century, which the artist intervenes either with insertions or by appropriating them, thus inviting reflection on violence and colonialism.
Brodsky continues the line of work he had been carrying out to date, in which the manipulation of snapshots predominates, enlarging and intervening in them with crayon and watercolor. In addition, he continues adding short phrases through which victims or witnesses are given the power to be active participants in the work with their statements — although in Traces of Violence only the colonizer is afforded that role.
Beyond the explicitness of the images selected and the feelings and reactions they may provoke in the viewer, there lies the clear intention to delve into their instrumentality as record and memory. The exhibition that Zielinsky presents is completed with a piece made in collaboration with the multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture.
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Marcelo Brodsky. Traces of Violence (We studied your skulls), 2021. Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayón y acuarela)
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Marcelo Brodsky.Traces of Violence (We lied to you), 2021 - Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayon y acuarela)
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Marcelo Brodsky. Traces of Violence (We invaded you), 2021 - Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayon y acuarela)
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Marcelo Brodsky. Traces of Violence (We imprisoned you), 2021 - Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayón y acuarela)
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Marcelo Brodsky. Traces of Violence (We burnt your homes), 2021. Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayón y acuarela)
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Marcelo Brodsky. Traces of Violence (We made your women work for us), 2021. Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro intervenida con textos a mano por el artista (impresión con tintas de pigmentadas sobre papel, crayón y acuarela)
Traces of Violence is on view through October 31 at Zielinsky’s Barcelona location, Mercader 10, Barcelona (Spain).
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