“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."
MOVING MEMORIALS, 2012-ongoing.
Performance with artists' books
MOVING MEMORIALS, PERFORMANCE, ARTOMI, GHENT, NY, 2016. Maria Veronica San Martin. ph. Art OMI
MOVING MEMORIALS is an ongoing project composed of ten artist books with printmaking and fine print techniques in constant transformation. The series and its mobility, rejects a fix past and an idealistic progress, calling instead for an open book and an open narrative. These artist books are presented through a performance creating spaces to activate the viewer’s affects through the experience of silence, that very silence, then transforms into a metaphoric voice in the present. The whole hand made series has been created, designed, printed, and bound by the artist from 2012-today. The books are limited editions from one-of-a-kind to 50 copies collected by museums, art institutions, public libraries and universities.
Performance venues
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March 1, 2023 - Moving Memorials at Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Feb 14, 2023 - Moving Memorials at Westchester University, PA
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Sep, 2022 - Moving Memorials at Lincoln Center, NYC
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March 11, 2022 - Moving Memorials at Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
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Dec 6, 2020 - Dignidad at The Immigrant Artist Biennial, virtual exhibition
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Nov 7, 2019 - Dignidad at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sept 21, 2019 - Dignidad at Royal Academy of Art organize by Museum Meermanno, The Hague, NL
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Aug 8, 2019 - Dignidad at Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile
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Ap 25, 2019 - Moving Memorials at University of Delaware Museum, Newark, DE
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March 7, 2019 - Dignidad at Center for Book Arts (CBA), New York, NY
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Feb 6,2 019 - Dignidad at Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
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Oct4-8, 2018 - Dignidad at The National Archive of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Sep 7, 2018 - Moving Memorials at Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
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May 14, 2018 - Dignidad at Artists Space, Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP, NYC
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May 25, 2017 - Moving Memorials at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Ap 13, 2018 - Moving Memorials at P.S.147, Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Jan 10, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Corporation Red Calle, Santiago, Chile
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Oct 7, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), Impresionante Fair, Santiago, Chile
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Sep 29, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Embassy of Chile, Washington, DC
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July 10, 2016 - Moving Memorials, Open studios at Art OMI, Ghent, NY
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July 7, 2016 - Moving Memorials, Kids summer camp at Art OMI, Ghent, NY
MOVING
MEMORIALS
THE JAVELIN PROJECT I, 2022
Resin javelin, etchings on hand made paper, photos and performance./ unique / ask for price
MEMORY AND LANDSCAPE, 2013
Etchings, woodcuts, silkscreen, charcoal powder, ink two editions of 20 / sold out
COLONIA DIGNIDAD/DYSTOPIC UTOPIA, 2018
Metal movable sculpture with sound / unique
ask for price
EL SIGLO, 2011
Altered book, silskscreen
unique / sold out
THE JAVELIN PROJECT II, 2021
Etchings on felt, hand made box, photography and performance video / unique
THE-RIGHT-TO-KNOW_room, 2017
Silkscreen on cardboard, painting, handkerchiefs
unique / ask for price
MARCHES, 2012
silkscreen, linocut, chine-collé, hand drawing
unique / Sold out
DIGNIDAD, 2020, artist's book video, lithography, hand made box, photography and performance at The National Archive of Chile, 01:15 mins
New York International Print Center, "Give Me Space" exhibition, NYC, 2020
learn more about the project here
Moving Memorials, performance, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY, 2017. ph. BRIC
Archives, Memory and Identity: A Public Symposium, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2018
Moving Memorials, performance, Art OMI, Ghent, NY, 2016. Maria Veronica San Martin. ph. Art OMI
Colonia Dignidad/Dystopic Utopia, performance, LA Art Fair, 2021. ph. Samantha Condello Colonia Dignidad/Dystopic Utopia, performance, LA Art Fair, 2021
