Opening November 5th
Visits: Wednesday to Sunday from 12am to 7pm How to turn monuments into witnesses that talk about social transformation? How are consensus and dissent negotiated in the construction of collective narratives? How to let in new perspectives? Recent events provide us with clues: scenes such as those of the demonstrators who climbed up the monument to Baquedano in Santiago de Chile and transformed it for good by converting the effigy of the soldier into a platform for protests. The bodies made of stone and metal are put in tension by the actual bodies of the present, which rebuild and reconfigure the meaning of monumental narratives as they pass through the city every day. UNOFFICIAL brings together works by Latin American artists who take a critical look at heritage, the construction of memory, official narratives, and their representation in monumental public sculpture. With a focus on issues such as consensus and dissent in the configuration of public space, these works give visibility to the processes of radical re-signification of heritage and symbols of the nation-state, as well as the social dispute around them. They endow crystallised images and naturalised mechanisms with new memories. They mount scenes, they mount one another to go on stage, they mount bodies, they mount archives, they mount and dismantle monuments and create other repertoires.
UNOFFICIAL. Historias montadas, relatos disidentes Episodio 3 is presented at BIENALSUR 2021 with the support of the Secretaría de Patrimonio Cultural del Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación.
Photo: Inventario Iconoclasta de la Insurrección Chilena by Celeste Rojas Mugica