Aesthetics and politics -Nikos Papastergiadis

The idea that documentation is vital to the way we perceive, address and cope with certain situations and events is evident in the work of Lucy & Jorge Orta, Fallujah–In the Name of God. This work consists of a collection of images of war, american soldiers graves, funerals and George Bush, framed by slightly opened ambulance doors. These carefully chosen images evoke certain feelings and emotions which Studio Orta would like its audience to address.

Papastergiadis also addresses this in the reader, in regards to 9/11. He comments on how the repetition of images and other documentation reiterated that sense of pain, shock, disbelief and horror of the attacks days, months and even years later.