Book
English
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20.500.12854/62386>
Abstract
Many Argentine left the country for political reasons, forced by the violence deployed by state terrorism in Argentina during the third peronism and especially in the civil-military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Exile was part of human rights violations such as persecution, detention, systematic torture, appropriation of children and forced disappearance of persons. Mexico was one of the main recipient countries for exile families and children had to transit between the two cultures there. In this book, we focus on relations between art, memory and exile, based on a set of current visual productions of artists belonging to this second generation of political exiles in Mexico, who have returned to Argentina. The aim is to investigate the many memories that cross in Argentinian identity building from a body of artistic productions around the recent Argentinian past, taking into account the specificity of the artistic environment. Our main hypothesis argues that the artistic specificities of each of the media at stake, i.e. photography, body and objectivity, is a privileged space for the production and transmission of traumatic memories, exile and return.