The skull of Josef Mengele as an art object

forensis_imgsize_L

Tonight, I went to the opening of this exhibition at HKW in Berlin:

From tracing fingerprints to tracking Internet activities, forensics is central to the ways by which states police and govern their subjects. Through its media representations it has also become a defining feature of contemporary culture. Forensics seeks to invert the direction of the forensic gaze and designate the emergence of new aesthetic-political practices by which individuals and independent organisations use new technologies aesthetic practices, and architectural methodologies to bear upon a range of issues from political struggle to violent conflict and climate change.

The first object of the show was this:

View this post on Instagram

Art opening. #berlin

A post shared by Ronnie Rocket (@ronnierocket) on

View this post on Instagram

Mengele's skull. #berlin

A post shared by Ronnie Rocket (@ronnierocket) on

View this post on Instagram

Mengeles skull #berlin

A post shared by Ronnie Rocket (@ronnierocket) on


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s