![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 18, attempts to render visible these ‘historical wounds’ of Western modernity, including systemic racism and capitalist extraction, drawing links between individual injury and collective trauma.Īriella Aisha Azoulay’s “The Natural History of Rape,” for example, presents a largely textual post-World War II archive through anonymous diaries documenting the rampant sexual abuse of women in Berlin at the hands of the allied forces - their ‘liberators.’ The photographs she includes feature a destroyed city rather than violated bodies - a deliberate comment on the incompleteness of the historical archive.įrench-Algerian artist Kader Attia is the curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, entitled “Still Present!” (Jennifer Soike) What Algerian psychoanalyst Karima Lazali calls ‘The rogues of the Enlightenment,’” says French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, entitled “Still Present!” BERLIN: “I’m interested in understanding why the world is haunted by injuries produced by modernity and its massive crimes, such as fascism, colonialism, slavery. ![]()
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