In September 1972, the exhibition Art and Ideology – CAyC in the Open, where Elda Cerrato intervened texts by writer Roberto Arlt, was shut down by the City of Buenos Aires. A year later, two of her works were sent to the Chilean Fine Arts Museum (Museo de Bellas Artes) together with 143 heliographs from the CAyC as part of an initiative which was cut short by the coup. The reproduction of these censored installations offers Elda Cerrato a way of intervening the exhibition From Here to Modernity which belongs to the Museum’s permanent collection and includes both of the artist’s works which arrived in 1973. In this way, like epistemiologies which interact in temporal and biographical terms, she operates using censorship and the alienation of visual production in times of conflict, to undertake a symbolic restoration and recontextualize the artistic and political memory of women artists.
