Title: Anamnesia
Description: We are about to celebrate ten years after the presentation of the fundamental Final Report of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation. Peru, however, remains stuck in their unsettled battles by a national memory. Personal and social: a persistent vocation for oblivion in different instances of power hinders processing and overcoming the high violence and authoritarianism that marked traumatically the nation's life - and individual lives - during the decades of 1980 and 1990. Some symbolic practices, however, have compensated for the silence of the political elite using a capacity always to regenerated for the sublimation of the horror. New figurations of violence, new poetics, with stunning projections of condemnation or catharsis. Healing and expressive powers that are as strong and are now a recurrent tradition in the local art, to the point of running serious risks of voiding or rethinking the celebratory attitude and commercial system lately lavished for demonstrations previously persecuted or ignored. In this context of paradoxical victory - there are successes that kill - in this fourth installment of a project "Parts of War", MICROMUSEO ("al fondo hay sitio") aims to demonstrate that is possible to criticality renew the artistic production on such topics. By way of example (meditated), the museum has brought together specific works of three young artitsts, born between 1982 and 1983: Rudolph Castro, Claudia Martínez Garay and Santiago Quintanilla. The selection is not random, although with proposed plastic differences. Each of the artists shares a closer vision to violence that does not respond to the ideologies in vogue but the recovery of almost an intuitive processing memory.
Subjects: Political violence in art, Exhibitions, Art, Political aspects
Places: Peru
People: Rudolph Castro, Claudia Martinez Garay, Santiago Quintanilla