Marina Planas workshop ”Els ulls sense rostre’” with DARUMA Association

This workshop is aimed at all audiences and works on the topic of mental health within photography. More precisely, it focuses on the stigmatization of people’s faces referring to criminal phrenology or forensic anthropology represented by criminologist Cesare Lombroso, whose work is now considered a pseudoscience. The project Els ulls sense rostreconsists of mediating with the mental health collective in which a series of archive photographs from the late nineteenth century will be intervened . The skulls and physiognomic features of anonymous people will be measured as an action that recalls the erroneous practices that have been committed by the psychiatric institution in the name of science. These interventions are intended to generate conversations and work on the issue of identity, power and the face as a control mechanism.