Inauguration November 6, 20h
Visits: until December 17, 2021 and from 7 to February 13, 2022, Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 6pm and weekends from 2pm to 5pm.
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Some events remain in time and, however much we may want to hide them or ignore them, they remain latent and reappear when least expected. They permeate objects and threaten oblivion. Not only are they constructions that bore witness and that still today many try to tear down, but also stains on the earth, voices in the wind, minor details that return in vague yet powerful ways.Thus, this BIENALSUR exhibition addresses both history and the present, a time without borders, when workers dared to ask for better working conditions, such as not sleeping in overcrowded spaces or to be given a pack of candles a month.
The opening idea is a good argument: the exhibition takes place on the one hundredth anniversary of the uprisings in Patagonia, known as the "workers' strikes", which were rescued from oblivion by tenacious researchers, such as the historian Osvaldo Bayer in his work The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia (better known as Rebellion in Patagonia). The proposal aims to investigate these ambiguous stains that persist today, sometimes only in the unconscious, since most of the events have been virtually obliterated from official Argentine and Chilean historical accounts.
Fernando Farina
Photo: Alberto Passolini
