México
As violence becomes more unspeakable, it accelerates the transformation of communities into open concentration camps to accelerate resource extraction. How can we re-present such hidden horrors? Operating from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, re/presentare aims to develop methodologies that reveal the complex relationships between state and non-state actors that perpetrate a kind of slow violence: one that sequentially dismantles the collective resistances that inhabit and defend urban, rural and natives.
Sergio Beltran-García:
Architect, activist and researcher, he works closely with victims of human rights violations, their defenders and communities in political, cultural and legal forums to strengthen access to the right to memory. He is about to begin a doctorate in Political Science at UNAM with the objective of defining how States perpetrate mnemonic violence, or damage through the destruction, disappearance and dispossession of memory.
Elis García:
researcher and curator. His architectural practice is developed from the critical and political analysis of the spaces and moments of intersection of architecture with human rights from a historical approach. He is currently completing a doctorate in Theory and History of Architecture at Princeton University.
