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“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 13 mobile handmade artist books with printmaking techniques that explore historic truths, human rights issues and mass resistance in contemporary Chile. 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 series of 203 original copies has been created, designed, printed, and bound by the artist from 2012-today. Moving Memorials range from limited editions of one-of-a-kind to 50 copies and are part of more than 80 international collection including The MET (NY), The National Musuem of Women in the Arts (DC), The Walker Art Center (MN), The Museum of Memory and Human Rights (Chile), The Musuem Meermanno (ND) and The Pompiou (FR).
Moving Memorials: Performance's venues
April 20, 2024 - Moving Memorials at La Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 11, 2024 - Moving Memorials at Bard, Center for Experimental Humanities, Hudson, NY
Nov 2, 2023 - Moving Memorials at Bridewell Library, SMU, Dallas, TX
March 1, 2023 - Moving Memorials at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
July 10, 2023 - Moving Memorials at Latinamerican and Latinx Studies of West Chester University, PA
July 7, 2022 - Moving Memorials at Lincoln Center, NYC
March 11, 2022 - Moving Memorials at Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Dec 6, 2020 - Dignidad at The Immigrant Artist Biennial, virtual exhibition
Nov 7, 2019 - Dignidad at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Sept 21, 2019 - Dignidad at Royal Academy of Art organize by Museum Meermanno, The Hague, NL
Aug 8, 2019 - Dignidad at Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile
Ap 25, 2019 - Moving Memorials at University of Delaware Museum, Newark, DE
March 7, 2019 - Dignidad at Center for Book Arts (CBA), New York, NY
Feb 6,2 019 - Dignidad at Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
Oct4-8, 2018 - Dignidad at The National Archive of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Sep 7, 2018 - Moving Memorials at Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
May 14, 2018 - Dignidad at Artists Space, Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP, NYC
May 25, 2017 - Moving Memorials at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Ap 13, 2018 - Moving Memorials at P.S.147, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Jan 10, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Corporation Red Calle, Santiago, Chile
Oct 7, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), Impresionante Fair, Santiago, Chile
Sep 29, 2016 - Moving Memorials at Art Gallery at the Embassy of Chile, Washington, DC
July 7, 2016 - Moving Memorials, Kids summer camp at Art OMI, Ghent, NY
July 10, 2016 - Moving Memorials, Open studios at Art OMI, Ghent, NY
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THE JAVELIN PROJECT I, 2022
Resin javelin, etchings on hand made paper, photos and performance./ unique / inquires
MEMORY AND LANDSCAPE, 2013
Etchings, woodcuts, silkscreen, charcoal powder, ink two editions of 20 / OUT OF PRINT
COLONIA DIGNIDAD/DYSTOPIC UTOPIA, 2018
Metal movable sculpture with sound / unique
inquires
EL SIGLO, 2011
Altered book, silskscreen
unique / OUT OF PRINT
IN THEIR MEMORY, 2012
Silkscreen and inject on paper
two editions of 20 / few copies left / inquires
THE JAVELIN PROJECT II, 2021
Etchings on felt, hand made box, photography and performance video / unique
MARCHES, 2012
silkscreen, linocut, chine-collé, hand drawing
unique / OUT OF PRINT
THE JAVELIN PROJECT III, 2021
Etchings on fabric, hand made box, photography and performance video / unique
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
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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
Moving Memorials, performance, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, CT, 2022. ph. Pablo Delano Moving Memorials, performance, Santiago, Chile, 2016. ph. Revista Diseña, UC
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