Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez. Courtesy of the MACK and the artist.
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Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez discuss their latest book, Anchor in the Landscape (MACK, 2024), with artist David Birkin and Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Over the past eighteen months, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. This book brings together their studied, absorbing portraits of these trees, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed.
ABOUT ADAM BROOMBERG
Adam Broomberg (b. 1970, Johannesburg) is an artist, activist, and educator currently based in Berlin. For two decades, he was one half of the critically acclaimed artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin, who had numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at Fabra i Coats Centre D’Art Contemporani Barcelona (2021), The Centre Georges Pompidou (2018), and the Hasselblad Center (2017). Broomberg’s work is held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Baltimore Museum of Art, Centres Pompidou, Cleveland Museum of Art, MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Tate, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
ABOUT RAFAEL GONZALEZ
Rafael Gonzalez (b. 1997, Saint-Cloud, France) is a lens-based artist living and working between Berlin and New York. He received a BA from the SRH Berlin School of Design and Communication in 2019, a BS from the University of London and LSE in 2021, and completed the one-year programme at ICP in New York in 2024. Previously he has worked for André Viking in 2021 and Adam Broomberg between 2022 and 2023 and is a founding Board Member of Artists + Allies x Hebron since 2023.
ABOUT EYAL WEIZMAN
Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. In 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. This work is documented in the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, 2014). In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
ABOUT DAVID BIRKIN
David Birkin is an artist, writer, and Senior Lecturer in Photography at London College of Communication, UAL, where he co-founded VISIBLE JUSTICE, a transdisciplinary research hub for photographers, filmmakers, artists, activists, journalists, and human rights lawyers working at the intersection of visual culture and social justice. Birkin holds a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London), and was a fellow of the Art & Law Program in New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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