Recompose the Landscape: Evidence and Denounce

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Bruno Andrés Jara Ahumada

Abstract

The investigation states that the landscape was repetitive in the visual testimonies of the Chilean military dictatorship. By landscape it comprises a visual, political and cultural construction, which gives space-reference density to the memory accounts. In this context, we distinguish a struggle of meanings: first, authoritarianism instrumented the landscape to convey the subterranean values ​​and promoted the legitimacy of the regime. At the same time, the resistance generated denotative landscapes, in an accusatory-testimony key, which materialized in endless means. Specifically, a corpus composed of arpilleras and drawings in prison will be examined. Beyond its specificities, we propose that one of the main functions that brings together both sets is its use as a device of evidence and denunciation. Thus, we will try to recompose part of the dissident landscape by weaving together certain images that account for the spatial substrate of the events. 

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Bruno Andrés Jara Ahumada, Universidad de Santiago

Investigador, tipógrafo y artista visual. Magíster en arte, pensamiento y culturas Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Licenciado en diseño, Universidad de Chile. Últimas publicaciones: "Ecos y remembranzas: trazas precolombinas en el arte contemporáneo" (2017); "Utopía del paisaje en Chile" (2016); "El código atemporal: la memoria cifrada en los diagramas de Hugo Rivera-Scott" (2016).