Spectral Imprints Book Launch and Presentation at Ashkal Alwan

Join Ashkal Alwan for the launch of “Spectral Imprints”, with talks and Q&A with Nat Muller and Raed Yassin, and a reading by Fadi Tufayli.

On the occasion of the publication of “Spectral Imprints”, curator/editor Nat Muller, artist Raed Yassin and writer Fadi Tufayli engage with the possibilities and impossibilities of visually, and materially, representing history and memory at a time when the past and the present collide. The program will focus on the notion of repetition and how it manifests itself strategically and performatively throughout the artworks that make up the Spectral Imprints exhibition and its publication.

This evening explores the political and symbolic value of what occurs when the gesture of repetition becomes cast in artistic projects: What type of rituals does it suggest? What sticks or vanishes with every repetition? What type of experiential or physical imprint is left? And how does seriality differ from singularity?

Throughout the program, they will discuss the curatorial, editorial, artistic, and design-related strategies that have been brought to the ghosts and histories of the “Spectral Imprints” project and beyond, and explore the very instance when narratives of the past become tangible and present, and break into the current moment, only to disappear again like phantoms, leaving – repeatedly – an imprint of recognition or confusion that can be interpreted along a multiplicity of meanings and frameworks.