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Book Review| June 02 2019 Exhibition Review: Andres Serrano: Torture Andres Serrano: Torture: Stills Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland: November 30, 2018–March 3, 2019. Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska is a London-based arts advisor, writer, and editor. She co-founded KAPSULA Press in 2013, and in summer 2019, she will launch a series of artist residency projects in Cuba and Bulgaria. She writes articles on contemporary art issues, with an interest in art and politics, and edits scholarly articles for academics in the fields of art, political science, and architecture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Yoli Terziyska is a London-based arts advisor, writer, and editor. She co-founded KAPSULA Press in 2013, and in summer 2019, she will launch a series of artist residency projects in Cuba and Bulgaria. She writes articles on contemporary art issues, with an interest in art and politics, and edits scholarly articles for academics in the fields of art, political science, and architecture. Afterimage (2019) 46 (2): 59–66. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462006 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Yoli Terziyska; Exhibition Review: Andres Serrano: Torture. Afterimage 2 June 2019; 46 (2): 59–66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462006 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Ten photographs from Andres Serrano’s Torture series were recently exhibited at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. The large images on display belong to a comprehensive body of work that Serrano completed in 2015. The artist traveled to over fifteen cities in Europe, where he photographed torture museums, concentration camps, Stasi prisons, victims of torture, and medieval torture devices. In addition, he staged torture practices with tens of volunteers. Chosen for the display at Stills were six images of four volunteers placed in degrading positions simulating torture tactics, three images of historical torture devices, and one portrait of the ex-Central Intelligence Agency analyst and whistleblower John Kiriakou—the man who revealed the CIA’s widespread use of waterboarding to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners in 2007.1 Through the documentation of multiple subjects, locations, and objects linked to torture, Serrano’s works flatten time in favor of pointing to torture as a panhistorical and universal human... You do not currently have access to this content.
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