Absence / Presence

2022
Museo de la Memoria (during the group exposition "Rebeldes - Laboratorio experimental de prácticas feministas"), Santiago, Chile

With the cooperation of: Lucrecia Brito Vásquez, Kelly Echiburú, Lorena Estivales Arratia, Paula Fuica Holzapfel, Alejandra Holzapfel Picarte, Vanessa Marimón Fuentes, Amelia Negrón, María Isabel Ortega Fuentes, Pilar Quintanilla Venegas

I intervene in the external museum space with an installation, exactly in the place of the stones, in the tray at the entrance of the Museum, with large, empty, black chairs that allude to the absence of so many murdered, tortured and disappeared women.
This installation remains on display throughout the exhibition until August, as a remnant of absence and a silent testimony of stories, where impunity is constant.

The uninhabited chairs are related to a performance, which was held on April 14, on the esplanade of the Museum. The uninhabited chairs are related to a performance, which was held on April 14, on the esplanade of the Museum. I invited women who were former political prisoners, tortured and violated, to act with me in the museum and on public streets, to express their stories of pain and resistance, achieving a synthesis, which came together in a specific word for each one.

It is an introspective dialogue, the absence and the presence in tension. I propose a sensitive space for meeting and reflection.

Press and communication: César Baeza
Video documentation: Sven Hahne
Photographic Documentation: Marucela Ramírez and Marcela Araya

Photo-Documentation: Marucela Ramírez
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