Re: [-empyre-] Abu Ghraib and the image

[Susana Mendes Silva <arslonga@netcabo.pt>]

Hi G.H.

On Jul 20, 2006, at 8:43 PM, G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:
> If you look at the video and photos from Abu Ghraib they are art  
> works, albeit rather twisted.


I find this sentence quite intriguing. Why this images are art works  
for you? Because you find in them some aesthetical value? Because  
they mimic the "transgressive art that is part of a fairly standard  
Avant-garde position essentially épatez du bourgeois"? They seem to  
me like war trophies...

I am also asking you this because in 1999, for a work called  
"Vigilante" I looked for images of east timorese being tortured by  
indonesean police agents. I never saw these images like art...I could  
not do it.

best,
sms



susana mendes silva
www.susanamendessilva.com
arslonga@netcabo.pt