To date, images of Osama bin Laden’s corpse haven’t been officially released. The principal evidence of the military operation was—according to the official account—buried at an undisclosed location at sea. After which, the raid’s scenario inevitably occupied the evidential status of events: the image of the architecture displaced the one of the body.

Most of the evidences of the raid have been buried, demolished or just or kept as classified records in the archives of the CIA, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. However, some evidences still circulate in media and others still wait in Abbottabad to be found. 

Once the compound was demolished, in February 2012, all the documents related to the house that are circulating in media—images, aerial photos, plans, scale models, replicas, and narrations—turned into the principal and remaining material body of evidence of the military operation which is publicly available. 

For the last five months, and for the purpose of an exhibition and its consequent publication, I have been compiling a dossier of evidences, built by the accumulation of all documents related to the Osama bin Laden house including its multiple iterations, replicas and simulations, which create a fascinating body of artifacts, architectural formats and representational devices. I have been in contact with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the writers of the first hand accounts of the raid and the Zero Dark Thirty production designer, among others. I have collected models, articles, images and books on this controversial event, fragments that show how the architecture of the house of bin Laden is constructed by (and circulates in) media.