An Uneven Memory

An Uneven Memory poses a double-edged question about the slippery intervals in our memory, and about events of insurrection. The acronyms and slogans preserved in popular political memory outline what remains of the irruption which unfolds in history as a secret miracle, beyond the plethora of information we have today about what happened on May 29, 1969, recorded in detail in the annals of rebellion. Fifty years after the Cordobazo, this exhibition enshrines a memory of the city of Cordoba, fused with a genealogy of popular events and the history of cutting-edge art which tackles the performance statement made by the bodies. RES makes a cross-over between popular acronyms and slogans, archives and testimony, the relationship between art and politics, the frontiers between what is art and what is not, the processes of learning and procedures, as formulae for his work which revisits the insistence of past interventions to interrogate the present. An Uneven Memory is an invitation to experience those intervals which gather together the slippery instants between the public and the private, while the epic events of revolt file past to the beat of the slogans. The words of Agustin Tosco echo through my memories of family lunches when we used to talk about this legendary activist from Luz y Fuerza, the electricity workers’ union.  RES has convinced me, through the words of Eduardo Grüner, that before all else, we think like Latin Americans, although I often think that the location demands that the inevitable fatality of the place where the event happened be given its own name. “Cordobazo” is at once an impossible name and the potential to invent the future. 

Artist: RES (ARG)

Km: 646.3

Sede: Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa

Dirección : Av. Poeta Lugones 411

Cidade : Córdoba

Argentina

Artistas:

RES (ARG)

Eixos curatoriais:

Memories and Oblivion

Tipo(s):

Exhibition

De 2019/06/13

A 2019/09/01