Opening: Thursday November 23th 12pm The following curatorial project presents an array of narratives, dialogues, and alternative reflections on the memory of the Chilean civil-military dictatorship and the Franco dictatorship in Spain, with works by contemporary artists from both countries. The exhibition aims to address different generational points of view that problematize aspects of these past events through videos, photographs, installations, paintings, and drawings that will be displayed along with pieces from the collection of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. The show thus represents a crossover through operations, gestures and statements that activate individual and collective memory transversally and beyond the places of origin. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, it is fitting to delve into the way in which artists relate to these past events and their impact on the societies of which they are a part. For this reason, the exhibition is conceived as a sounding board rather than a static moment, in which elements of the present, the past and the prefiguration of the future converge in a complex framework that challenges our own configuration of the world and encourages us to continue working from new spaces of meaning.
Soledad Aguirre
Image: Noelia Pérez Sández
