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Wall installation; silver archive prints and technical papers
Variable dimension
The concept of the Burn Wall installation is simple. Photographic documents from the 1984 Bread Riots are displayed backwards, with only the captions visible. By removing what the images show, the installation invites the viewer to look more closely. One must approach the wall and view it from an angle for the image to reflect something like its reverse in a distorted mirror. Through the removal of the image itself, a new way of reading history becomes possible. These two actions are less contradictory than they might initially seem. It is precisely to return to this moment, armed against forgetting, that the archival image in Burn embraces its own removal.
Views from the exhibition The White Hunter-African memories and representations curated by Marco Scotini, FM Centro Per L’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, 2017