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ESTÉTICA DEL CRIMEN
Publisher: Crack Gallery
Year: 2022
Pages: 144 p.
Dimensions: 14.4 x 20.4 cm.
Soft Cover: Coated semimatt (250gsm)
Paper Content: Uncoated (120gsm)
Binding: Perfect binding and thread sewn
Process: Offset Printed
Color: 4/4 (CMYK)
Edition Size: 500
Printed in Mexico.
-What kind of objects and what kind of bodies
are being detained and how do they unfold as
a representation of the state facing crime? This
book is a compilation of images and objects of
Estética del crimen’s archive –a collection of
photographs created and spread by the Mexican
governmental institutions– as a warning of
the staging and to clear up the illusion of
chastisement against the rest of the unpunished
crimes in the country.
The symmetry in these images and the
spatial disposition of each body are a result of a
pretension of transparency and objectivity at the
eyes of the law. The confiscated objects draw
attention to their own materiality and their status
as witnesses to an absent event: the crime.
The photographs of the detentions address the
absurd, the domestic in the public realm and the
violence of its materiality. Nevertheless, they
forget that identity persists in gestures, tattoos
and clothing, revealing the reification of the
subject who commits a crime.