This article, published in the Arts Library Journal, is based on a lecture that I held in October 2018 at Museo Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid, in the context of the event series \u201cDocumentos\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this text, I propose a reading of the documenta Archive \u201cagainst the grain,\u201d that is, without trying to locate historically relevant information for art, but rather in search of traces of subjective biases in its structure, and emotional content in its records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aim of this exercise is to examine the subjective nuances revealed by the structure of this particular archive. Every archive retains these nuances even if they are not intentionally recorded, and quite often, it is precisely these nuances that allow us to catch a glimpse of the intellectual construction that holds it, which would otherwise be hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u00ab…Debido a su papel como directora del Archivo, de hecho, Ela Spornitz aparece mencionada en la web institucional, donde la lista de directores se acompa\u00f1a de sus fotograf\u00edas. As\u00ed pues, para ilustrar estas cartas en la conferencia que estaba preparando, solicit\u00e9 al Archivo su fotograf\u00eda. El documento digital que recib\u00ed me brind\u00f3 otra sugerente e inesperada sorpresa…\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[47,70],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texts","tag-archive","tag-documenta"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t