Identidad
On exhibit for the first time in the United States is a large installation, Identidad (Identity), made by thirteen Argentinean artists in 1998 in order to assist the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the search of their grandchildren, kidnapped/disappeared with their parents, or born in captivity during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Upon seeing Identidad when it opened in the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, three people discovered "who they were" before they had been adopted by military families.
Identity was produced by the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. The artists conceived the work as an uninterrupted line composed of photos of the kidnapped/disappeared couples and a mirror in the place of the missing child. A kind of genealogical tree is thus composed and partially reconstructed by the reflection of the spectator's face, maybe one of those young people the Grandmothers of Plaza the Mayo are still looking for.
Artists: Carlos Alonso, Nora Aslán, Mireya Baglietto, Remo Bianchedi, Diana Dowek, León Ferrari, Rosana Fuertes, Carlos Gorriarena, Adolfo Nigro, Luis Felipe Noé, Daniel Ontiveros, Juan Carlos Romero y Marcia Schvartz. |
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