Media Aesthetics of Collaborative Witnessing
Three Takes on Three Doors — Forensic Architecture / Forensis, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh (2022, Frankfurter Kunstverein).
Exhibition review by Anna Polze and Lisa Stuckey, published in Third Text Online, www.thirdtext.org/stuckey-polze-threedoors, 1 September 2022
Three critical takes and close readings on the much acclaimed exhibition ‘Three Doors – Forensic Architecture / Forensis, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh’ at Frankfurter Kunstverein (3 June – 11 September 2022) and its investigation into two separate incidents in Germany in 2005 (the Death of Oury Jalloh) and 2020 (Racist attacks in Hanau), in which innocent people lost their lives. The review by Anna Polze and Lisa Stuckey discusses the exhibition's site specifity, the notion of architectural operativity and the development of a new mode of collaborative witnessing.
