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GREGORY-RIVERA, Christopher (Porto Rico, 1982)El Gobierno Te Odia
New York, Los Sumergidos - Penumbra Foundation - Magnum Foundation 2024 - Prima edizione in questa veste di 300 copie (First edition in this format of 300 copies)
Archival photographs in b/w. Texts in Spanish and English. Enclosed is a postcard reproducing in colour a copy of the manual “Puerto Rico Police Intelligence Office Supplementary Material Surveillance” from which the texts of the book are taken
Risograph (Black), Foil Stamp (cover). Design: Alejandro Torres Viera. Typeface: Quadrant Text – Vincent Chan & Public Sans – USWDS
Cm 30,5x23, pp. 100 Brossura, custodia (wrappers, slip-case) Perfetto (Mint)Christopher Gregory-Rivera's El Gobierno Te Odia is an Orwellian experience. A systemized approach to governmental personal invasion is brought to life in Gregogy-Rivera's 2023 Risograph, combining images from a decades-long surveillance program implemented by the Puerto Rican Police, FBI, and CIA with text from the original surveillance manual. An agenda intended to check rebellion against governmental forces, in part, exerted its power through the coopting of Puerto Ricans. Whether from pressure for complicity, threats, or bribes, ordinary citizens surveilled their neighbors' friends and loved ones. The project and the reality bring into question: who can we really trust? Is our government, community, and family as capable of betraying us as they are of loving us? Questions that underscore how far a state will go to silence any perceived threats, invading the most important of relationships and sense of safety to instill compliance.
€200