Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]

Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]
Video. (2015)

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 Mar 2018
at University of Rhode Island’s Main Art Gallery
as part of the 2018 RISCA Fellowship Group Show

Screened 20 Oct 2017
at the Resident Gallery, AS220
as part of Se aculillo? | Are you scared?: Benefit for Puerto Rico

Screened 17 April 2015
at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
as part of ¡Té Lo Perdiste!
curated by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez

          <em>Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]</em> installed at the Mills Gallery<br>          Photos © J.C. Torres 2015
          Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1] installed at the Mills Gallery
          Photos © J.C. Torres 2015