Postales para desaparecer

2019 Photo series: poster printing
356 × 252 cm

This public installation extends the themes introduced in Postales para desaparecer (Postcards for Disappearing). While the original photographic series reflected on acts of erasure within urban space, this intervention brings the work directly into the public realm.

The image presents the word “genocidio” (genocide) partially obscured by a state-issued tourism poster. At first glance, it is unclear whether the painted word belongs to the billboard itself or to the wall beneath it—echoing the ambiguity and layered visual language explored in the original series. Viewers may initially experience a moment of disorientation, as the geographic context of the message is not immediately apparent. Only upon closer inspection does it become clear that the tourism poster is from Guatemala, anchoring the image in a specific political and historical reality.

By relocating the work from a gallery context to the street, we underscore the power dynamics involved in visibility, memory, and denial. The billboard, traditionally a tool for advertising and state messaging, becomes a contested site—where historical violence and institutional forgetting confront each other in plain sight.

The photo series Postales para desaparecer will be presented both as part of the described intervention at Freiburg Central Station and in postcard format in the Schopf2 exhibition space.