The Orders of Love

Opening: Thursday August 24th 7pm


The Orders of Love stems from research into the family archive of Lucila Penedo y Novoa, created from the communication traces of an Argentinean family separated by exile during the last civil-military dictatorship. This exhibition establishes a dialogue between the family archive and the contemporary photographic work by Lucila Penedo y Novoa, which focuses on her family and seems to blend with the archive because of its aesthetic of a family album and its documentary intent, and a selection from the family archive. This compilation brings together the correspondence between an exiled father and his daughter who stayed behind in Argentina. There is a broad range of materials: letters, postcards, photographs, drawings, recordings, an album of stamps, documents and passports, which now bear witness to those years. One of the most significant issues raised by this work is how emotional bonds are transformed and endure over great distances, as well as the tools employed in their construction. Thus, the exhibition proposes experimenting with different possibilities by tracing the spatial and temporal itineraries of its materials, in an attempt to rekindle the constant process of memory. Over forty years later, it is essential to exhibit this archive with its political dimension at its core, drawing it out of the private sphere to show it as further evidence of the social trauma caused by state terrorism in Argentina.


Cecilia Nisembaum





Km: 279

Venue: Museo de la Memoria

Address : Córdoba 2019

City : Rosario

Argentina

Artist(s):

Lucila Penedo y Novoa (ARG)

Curatorship:

Cecilia Nisembaum (ARG),

Type(s):

Exhibition

From 2023/08/24

To 2023/10/29