Raffaella Cortese is proud to present a second solo show by US artist William E. Jones.

Over the course of more than two decades, William E. Jones has created films, videos, photographs, prints, and texts that reorganize and recontextualize archival materials of all kinds. He combines research with formal experimentation, revealing the passions and sublimated political forces at work in documents of the state, forgotten or overlooked popular media, and official (and unofficial) visual histories.

For the current exhibition Jones presents works dealing with secret psychiatric experiments performed on unwitting victims and funded by the CIA. Based upon historical material from the 1960s and 70s, the works, in light of recent revelations about torture conducted by the CIA, are directly relevant to the present.