“THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY CORRESPONDS TO THE IMAGE THAT DISAPPEARS IN THE PRINTMAKING PROCESSES (ETCHING) AND THEN REAPPEARS (PRINTED ON THE PAPER). MY WORK CALLS TO THE NEED FOR A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH, WHICH BY NO MEANS IS FINITE OR TERMINAL, BUT RATHER AN INITIATIVE THAT EXISTS IN AND WITH TIME."
IN THEIR MEMORY.HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN CHILE, 1973-1990 (1st ed. 2012-2nd ed. 2020)
Medium: Silkscreen, digital print
Dimensions: 12.25 in W x 7.5 H x 1.5 D, extend to 50 inches/19 cms x 32 cms x 4 cms, extend to 125 cms.
Binding Type: Hand sewn, accordion
Collections: Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, FRANCE; Klingspor Museum, GERMANY ; Harvard University Art Library, MA; Library of Congress, DC; Stanford University Libraries, CA; Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien, VIENNA; Yale University; Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, CT; National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C., among other 20 collections.
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IN THEIR MEMORY is a book of resistance that carries forward the protest begun by the families of the disappeared in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973-1990). More than forty thousand political prisoners were victims of torture, execution and exile, and 3,550 people were disappeared. Nameless crosses are all that they have received by way of a burial.It is to honor the missing and their families that this object-book seeks to disseminate and communicate human rights’ violations in Chile. By documenting the identities of the victims, In Their Memory also invites reflection and puts forth a message of hope founded in truth.