In the Vestibule with Forensic Architecture

Two Forensic Architecture (FA) investigations, The Killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Abu Daher and The Left-to-Die Boat, are exhibited as part of the In the Vestibule series.

The strategies and practices of Forensic Architecture do indeed record facts and frame them with the greatest precision through the analysis they are subjected to, but they are everything but ‘dry’ because of their embeddedness in the political terrain in which they are located and the difficulty to bring them to the surface.

The fragile nature of their status and their conditionality communicates the complicated relationship between fact and truth. This complication brings the viewer/reader of FA’s investigations into the larger arena of the social and political relations of power, a highly unstable field. – curator Michèle Thériault, in States of the Cause.

Courtesy of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada