Psychotecnic Checa
Item number:
026
Item title:
Psychotecnic Checa
Year in which the item emerged culturally or was produced industrially:
1937
Entry of the item into the inventory:
5 March 2017
A psychotechnic environment of confinement designed by Alfonso Laurencic for the SIM (Service for Military Research) of the republican milicia in 1937, Barcelona (Spain) during civil war as a torture space.
Its particularity is that it included formal elements extracted from surrealist movements, and geometric abstraction to be used as torture tools against the detained subject.
A reproduction by Pedro G. Romero can be found in Archivo F.X: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/obra/archivo-fx-reproduccion-checa-sim-servicio-investigacion-militar-convento-calle