‘Everything is red and grey’: Forensic Architecture

Exhibition

2 November 2024 - 22 February 2025

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In the context of Israel's genocidal military campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip,'Everything is red and grey' presents a series of recent investigations produced by Forensic Architecture (FA) in collaboration with Palestinian civil society groups. This is FA’s first solo exhibition in the Gulf.

The origins of Forensic Architecture lie in a critical practice dedicated to challenging settler-colonial violence in Palestine with locally situated counter-investigations.

Two of the featured investigations examine the systematic executions and mass burials of Palestinians carried out by Israeli forces in 1948, with a focus on the villages of Tantura and al-Dawayima—ethnically cleansed in 1948 and since wiped from the contemporary landscape. These works reveal a chilling continuity in the Israeli modus operandi of ethnic cleansing and displacement currently being experienced by Palestinians in Gaza.

Exhibited here publicly for the first time, these projects foreground the voices and testimonies of 1948 survivors in the process of reconstructing lost lifeworlds, and testify to the Palestinian experience of an ongoing, and escalating, Nakba.

tbc — Full dataset view from The Digital Violence platform, including data on physical, digital, and 'contextual' attacks. (Forensic Architecture, 2021)

tbc — Image from the project Humanitarian Violence in Gaza. The location of Israeli tanks on 22 January 2024, and the location of a civilian shot at while holding a white flag on 23 January 2024, with respect to al-Aqsa University within the al-Mawasi Humanitarian Zone. (Forensic Architecture, 2024)

tbc — Image from the project Living Archaeology in Gaza. The red circles indicate evidence of damage on or near the site. 3D Model - Forensic Architecture, 2022. Satellite Image: © CNES (2018), Distribution Airbus DS/Spot Image

tbc — Image from the project Living Archaeology in Gaza. 3D model of the excavations of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Anthedon. Image: Forensic Architecture, 2022

tbc — Image from the project Tantura: Executions and Mass Graves in Palestine. Image capture from FA's Tantura platform featuring a navigable 3D model of the city before its occupation in 1948. (Forensic Architecture, 2023)

tbc — Image capture from the project Tantura: Executions and Mass Graves in Palestine. Situated interview with Adnan Yahya, 11 March 2023. (Forensic Architecture, 2023)

tbc — Image from the project Tantura: Executions and Mass Graves in Palestine. Diagram representing all locations testified to be sites of mass graves inside the cemetery, sketched over a contemporary aerial image of the surrounding area. Image source: The Israeli Center for Public Affairs (OFEK), 7 June 2019. (Forensic Architecture, 2023)

tbc — Trajectory of six shots, from the project Shireen Abu Akleh: the Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist. Location of the journalists and the Israeli military convoy and trajectories of six of thirteen shots fired at the journalists. (Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq, 2022)

tbc — Visibility analysis, from the project Shireen Abu Akleh: the Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist. Shots were only fired when journalists, and later a civilian, were within the shooter’s field of vision (Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq, 2022)

These projects will be shown alongside a selection of other FA investigations with regional significance, addressing themes of violence against migrants, migrant labour, and surveillance. Altogether the exhibition seeks to offer insight into the assembled techniques and grounded networks of relations that shape FA's political, intellectual and artistic matrix.

The exhibition also presents a point of departure for different modes of engagement with the local intellectual context in Doha, which will take the form of seminars, pedagogical interventions, and public screenings of FA's work in collaboration with Georgetown University Qatar.

About Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. Their team includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers.