What Remains: Memory, Suppression, and the Aftermath of State Terrorism

Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 2:00–4:00 PM
Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York
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What persists after an episode of political or social violence is declared over? How does terror survive its immediate event by becoming embedded in the habits, defenses, and structures of everyday life?

This panel brings together London-based curator Vali Mahlouji, founder of Archaeology of the Final Decade, New York-based critic Richard Vine, and curator and writer Natasha Chuk, who will also moderate, for a conversation about their critical and cultural work with histories of conflict, state violence, and the cultural memory and legacies of these events. The discussion considers how violence can persist both through what is remembered and through what is suppressed, avoided, or rendered unspeakable, approaching haunting and “absent-presence” as evidence of violence that remains active in social and psychic life.

The panel is part of Badiyeh Arts’ Exchange Program 02, in partnership with Archaeology of the Final Decade (London), and is hosted by Fridman Gallery.