All testimony, spoken and material, must be understood in relation to the temporal and spatial context in which it is situated. ‘Situated testimony’ describes an investigative turn in FA’s practice toward the application of spatial analysis to the various forms of witnessing that emerge from, and are embedded within, the space of violence itself: video recordings, reenactments, ‘material witnesses,’ and immersive interviews.

This presentation centres FA’s situated testimony interviewing practice, through which individuals recount and spatialise their memories of a traumatic event, aided by three-dimensional digital models of the associated environments. The witness sits in front of a large screen beside an architectural modeller, who acts as both an interviewer and a technical aid to the witness as they recount their experience. Sometimes a lawyer, translator, or psychologist will also be present. During the collaborative modelling process, witnesses direct the reconstruction of precise details – the dimensions of a window, orientation of a building, or density of trees – each a potential portal to specific remembered scenes. The digital model thus becomes a stage where memory is accessed, translated, and performed; testifying becomes a simultaneous act of evidence production, in the process transforming ‘victims’ into witnesses.

This exhibition traces the ways in which situated testimony has developed and expanded over a decade of practice to engage latent sensory memory as well as ‘inherited testimonies’ transmitted across generations. Investigative films illustrating the technique in practice are presented alongside sketches produced by witnesses during interviews and libraries of digital objects prepared by researchers to support live reconstruction. Together, these materials foreground a novel approach to investigative practice wherein the complex architecture of memory is navigated and externalised, and new forms of evidence assembled from the furnishings of lived experience.

This exhibition is on view at Platform POST in Arnhem, Netherlands from 2 July – 20 December 2026.