Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror -- formless, hideous, defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual cult[...]
Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where names and addresses were constantly changing? In Who are You?, Valentin Groebner traces the early modern [...]
Vem är du? Och hur kan du bevisa det? Efter den 11 september har kontrollen av resenärer inom och mellan olika länder trappats upp. Valentin Groebners Personbevis handlar om identifieringens förhistoria och historia, från medeltiden till idag. Groebner undersöker samspelet mellan pappren och d[...]