A New Series of Essays Unpacks Public Grief and Loss
Led by editor Francesca Johanson and in collaboration with Guernica magazine, “Memory Loss” expands our notions of what makes a memorial.
March 13, 2021
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Earlier this month, Francesca Johanson, editor of the Architectural League’s online publication Urban Omnibus, launched “Memory Loss,” a new series with Guernica magazine. These essays seek out sites of remembrance in New York City, addressing a “continuum between private and public grief,” as in the work of artist and anthropologist Abou Farman, whom writer Olivia Schwob aptly quotes in the series’ first essay. The series aims to expand the inquiries of public memorials into the private, the quotidian, and our less monumental but no less significant ways of paying tribute to loss.
