[WORK]
404:NOT_FOUND
[experimental publication]
/2024
404: Not Found explores systemic erasure as a mechanism of power – from censorship to enforced disappearances – and the physical and symbolic voids it leaves behind. Drawing on case studies including Victor Jara, the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man,” and Operation Legacy, the work interrogates how absence shapes memory and power.
Material choices became central to the concept. Pixelated portraits obscured by censorship blocks were layered on tracing paper – methodical yet ghostlike. Laser-cut holes representing 3,500 disappeared people forced confrontation with absence at scale. The publication’s exposed coptic binding – echoing sacred texts – underscored the reverence erased histories deserve, while sugar paper added a fragile, unfinished quality.
Part research artifact, part protest object, 404: Not Found is a meditation on how absence distorts collective truth. It urges us to see erasure not just as missing data, but as a deeply human violence – one that must be remembered in order to be resisted.