Bodies of Evidence. A lecture by Ido Nahari and Adam Broomberg

Member of the research program group Heritage on the Margins, Nataša Rogelja Caf, participated in the event “Bodies of Evidence” at the MACBA museum in Barcelona, 17. October 2025. At the event, a Palestinian writer and sociologist, Ido Nahari, and a South African photographer and educator, Adam Broomberg, both based in Berlin, talked about the circulation and function of violent images of past and present genocides. They traced the visual techniques of villainization and glorification to define how images of war represent the moral limits of violence.

Particular attention was paid to Gaza, discussing how new fundamentalist grammar is created alongside the depiction of war-torn bodies of vulnerable victims on one hand and seemingly invulnerable invaders on the other. By showing certain images from social media, they talked about the performative rape, the ecological dimension of Nakba, about the violence as an act of surrealism because it destroys the real, and about the solidarity that is not always inherently progressive.

The seminar was organized by A*DESK, an International and Independent Institute of Criticism and Contemporary Art, which is the initiative of a group of contemporary art professionals. The mission of A*DESK is to vindicate actively the value of creative thought and to generate debate around art and contemporary culture.