Forensic Architecture (FA): Violence, Fast and Slow

They’re the world’s first architectural detective agency. Hatched by British-Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture (FA) have become a thorn in the side to police, military and corporations around the globe because of their habit of confounding official stories with their own meticulous reconstructions. Working with NGOs and human rights lawyers, these Turner Prize nominees have taken on casework from police shootings in Chicago to allegations of civilian torture in Cameroon and London’s tragic Grenfell Tower inferno. Forensic Architecture use whatever means they can to reconstruct a hybrid of physical and virtual space surrounding a conflict scene: phone-cameras, social media footage, eyewitness accounts, reconstructions. Curious? You can catch a presentation of their wide-ranging body of international cases at their first exhibition in Greece, called “Violence, Fast and Slow” at State of Concept Athens. FA are known in Greece for their investigation into the 2018 murder of gay rights activist Zak Kostopoulos.