Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1] Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1] uses VH1’s Pop Up Video aesthetic to collide Shakira’s music video with information about the U.S. military’s abuse of women and girls in Colombia. Pop-media becomes backdrop, frame, and screen for this sexual and gender-based violence. Visible Colombian star-power and highly sexualized imagery intertwine with documentation of abuses that the U.S. media has, over the past decade, virtually erased. The song lyrics further indicate a relationship sustained by convenient misremembering and forgetting. Screening/Installation history: Installed 17 April 2015 | ![<em>Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]</em> installed at the Mills Gallery<br> Photos © J.C. Torres 2015](http://www.jointhebenjam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CantRememberTryptic-480x.png) Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1] installed at the Mills Gallery |