By Yaman To’meh
Content Warning: This exhibition review includes mention of revolution, police brutality, surveillance, the military and other forms of state violence. Images also contain similarly sensitive material.
All photos are credited to Yaman To’meh.
In the presence of defined spatial memory, comics are the art form for expression: Each designated frame expresses a certain memory , with the blank spaces between the panels suggesting causality or sequence. Comics become a mapping of the bodies: an archive recording space and time with the complexity of the events documented. Comics are a form of preservation of the particular event being depicted within an intimate diary-like frame, especially when drawn by hand; they are a testimony to the artist’s archive of memories, a frozen moment to resurrect and to be built upon reality as it forms.
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