Over the past five decades Marcelo Brodsky developed a unique poetics based on the interaction of, mostly journalistic and archival, photographs and written annotations to achieve his objective: to activate personal and collective memory to communicate a message of resistance that may connect people across time and space.

His practice is rooted in his personal history and direct dramatic experience of State-sponsored terror in Argentina. During the Argentine Military Dictatorship (1976– 83), his best friend Martín Bercovich and his younger brother Fernando were abducted and disappeared in 1976 and 1979 respectively,3 a traumatic event which prompted the artist to go into exile in Barcelona, where he lived until the period of military dictatorship in Argentina ended.

The Poetics of Resistance reunites two major groups of works created by the artist between 2014 and 2019: 1968: The Fire of Ideas, composed of 55 intervened archival photographs devoted to the international mobilisations and protests of workers and students in 1968, and Africa: Fighting for Freedom, the series of images centred on the decolonisation process in Africa and its progressive transition to independence during the second half of the 20th century; furthermore this publication includes two further and still ongoing lines of inquiry, devoted to the anti-Franco resistance in Spain and to today’s burning question of migrants and refugees―in which, for the very first time, the artist engages in a reflection on contemporary issues.
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