Materia oscura

2016 | B/N | 08:55

Materia oscura is an experimental exercise that is part of an excavation work on the 54,000 folios about the “Iguala Case” - divided into 85 volumes and 13 annexes - that were made public by the Attorney General of the Republic in 2015. The set of documents presented in PDF are unreadable, crossed out, photocopied, scanned and re-photocopied several times.

Until the disappearance is integrated into the document itself. The disappearance of the image. The disappearance of the text.

The generations of images dissolved to the point of losing their image condition.

Direction: Varela; Bruno
Participation year at FICM: 2016

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