Pop-Up Art Exhibition: TREASURES: Strategies against Oblivion - A History of Enforced Disappearance in Mexico

Join us for I-GMAP’s first art exhibition, featuring the work of Resident Practitioner Zahara Gómez Lucini. Zahara is the first annual recipient of the Joint Engaged Artivist Award for Atrocity Prevention and Human Rights, an award established by I-GMAP, the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, and the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, Italy. As the recipient of the award, Zahara spends one semester at the Global Campus of Human Rights and another semester with us at Binghamton University. Zahara’s work focuses most frequently on documenting the stories and experiences of families whose loved ones have been disappeared in Mexico. The project that won her the award is called Recetarios para la Memoria, or “Recipe Books for Memory.” In this project, Zahara goes to families whose loved ones have been disappeared. The families teach her how to make the favorite meal of their loved one. Zahara documents the process through photography, then publishes the recipes, along with the biography of the disappeared person, in recipe books. Proceeds from the sale of the books go back to the families to help in the search for the remains of the disappeared.

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