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STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Full details on the projects history and rationale

PROJECT DIRECTORS

Chantal Meza is a Mexican born painter, whose work for the past decade has confronted the violence, terror, and the complexities of disappearance in both a human and ecological context.

Brad Evans is the founder & director of the Histories of Violence project. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence & Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath

ARTWORK

State of Disappearance Series

Obscure Beasts

Apparitions

Fragments of Catastrophe

Since the Beginning 

Collapse of Counciousness 

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EXHIBITIONS

Years 2023 - 2025

Full details on all our major exhibitions in prominent public galleries & spaces, including Bristol, Oxford, Bath, London, Heidelberg & Puebla, Mexico.

PUBLICATIONS

Information on key publications & free access to articles from our project

Critical voices asking deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalisation of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialisation, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

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MEDIA

Exploring the subject of Disappearance

In this section you will find a digital library of filmed resources related to the State of Disappearance project.

The archive includes recorded lectures, discussions, public interviews, webinar and podcast series with world renowned authorities.

PRESS 

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