On Thursday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m., at New York University’s King Juan Carolos I of Spain Center, located at 53 Washington Square South, the Catalan Center at NYU will host a dialogue, “Dark Rooms of Memory: Visions of Trauma in the Works of Francesc Torres.” The event is free and open to the public; for further information, all 212.998.8255.
Currently on view at the International Center for Photography (ICP), “Dark is the Room Where We Sleep” is a contemporary photographic and multimedia installation documenting the uncovering of a mass grave of Republican victims of the Francoist uprising in Spain.
Thirty years after the death of Franco, Torres’ work speaks to the collective amnesia surrounding Spain’s Civil War that is only beginning to be addressed in legal and human terms.
On Thursday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m., at New York University’s King Juan Carolos I of Spain Center, located at 53 Washington Square South, the Catalan Center at NYU will host a dialogue, “Dark Rooms of Memory: Visions of Trauma in the Works of Francesc Torres.” The event is free and open to the public; for further information, all 212.998.8255.
Torres will be in conversation with Arthur Danto, the renowned philosopher and critic, discussing the technical and aesthetic implications of tragic imagery and the recovery of buried memories. The discussion will be moderated by Kristen Lubben, ICP associate and organizer of the exhibition.