The Silver and the Cross
2010 · Two-channel video installation re-edited to single-channel video (color, sound)
17 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Harun Farocki
1944–2014
Nový Jičín, Czech Republic
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New Humans: Memories of the Future
New Museum
2026
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Harun Farocki was a German artist and filmmaker whose practice centered on photography, film, and video as tools for investigating systems of labor, surveillance, and industrial production. His work examined the visual infrastructure of capitalism, from factory floors to military technologies, with a rigorous formal approach that refuses spectacle. Operating across installation, documentary, and theoretical writing, Farocki produced images and moving images that expose how photographs and footage function as evidence, propaganda, and instruments of control rather than neutral records.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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