Voluspa Jarpa

2018

Boek; ca. 300 p ill

Met lijst werken. - Met biografie. - Omslagtitel: Secret I

Tent. Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), 15-07-2016, 02-10-2016. - Monografie toont een overzicht van het werk van de Chileense kunstenares Voluspa Jarpa (Rancague 1971). - The individuals portrayed in the project—a gallery of portraits—are victims of murders or of unsolved crimes; they are public figures who had held administrative posts in the public sector or in civic organizations in the region. The project makes use of the media of photography, paintings, sound, video, and installation.The show formulates a contrast between the two historical situations implicit in these biographies: the portraits (the stills) of the person versus the brutal register of violent deaths (the paintings). The layout of the exhibition gives shape to a kind of historical chronology and regional genealogy. The images are accompanied by audio tracks of speeches by the individuals portrayed. Thus, the exhibition brings together utopian public speeches, on the one hand, and dystopian secret information about historical events contained in a set of declassified files, on the other. The third component of the project is Translation Lessons, a multichannel video projected on five screens that reflects on the language barriers faced in attempting to gain access to the documentary material used for the project, much of which was produced by English-language intelligence agencies. This work considers the ideological and symbolic dimensions of the English language insofar as hegemonic.The exhibition also questions North American Minimalism, opposing that movement’s austerity and formal asceticism with the political violence that took place at its height.

Located in: JARPA, VOLUSPA

ISBN: 978-956-09006-1-6

VUBIS: 2:101711