During his exile in Barcelona in the 1980s, Marcelo Brodsky (Argentina, 1954), an economics graduate from the University of Barcelona, was trained as a photographer at the International Center of Photography, Barcelona, by the Catalonian photographer Manel Esclusa. In 1997 Brodsky edited and exhibited for the first time the photographic essay Buena Memoria (Good Memory) based on the effects of state terrorism in Argentina. Between 1997 and 2007, the exhibition was presented more than 120 times in 26 countries, both as a one-man show and as part of other artistic projects. Building on the momentum of Buena Memoria, Brodsky has continued creating and exhibiting work based on the ideas of collective memory, oblivion and human rights abuses around the world. Throughout his career he has created visual correspondences through collaborations with other artists based several projects on archival images which he intervened with inscriptions as a form of personal narrative. Some of these projects include I Pray with My Feet (2014) and 1968, The Fire of Ideas (2014-15). His work is featured in public collections worldwide including, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Tate Collection, UK; ESCALA, University of Essex; the Sprengel Museum, Hannover; the Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo; the Museo de Arte Moderna, Recife; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Moderno MAMBA, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte de Lima; Coleccion Celarg, Venezuela; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile; and the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile.

Brodsky is a member of the Buena Memoria Human Rights organization and the Board of the Park of Memory for the Victims of State Terrorism close to the Río de la Plata and the Monument for the Missing and Murdered during the military dictatorship. Brodsky’s work seeks to communicate to the new generations the experience of state terrorism in Argentina in a different way, based on emotion and sensorial experience such that the transmission of it will generate a real and profound knowledge based on dialogue among the different generations affected by the consequences of the military dictatorship.