In this photographic series, the artist uses internet-sourced photos to recreate choreographic scores from the 1976 Argentinian military dictatorship. The series explores memories inherited by the generation that came after the dictatorship.
The gestures used reference bodies, histories and actions that are recontextualised by their relocation to a domestic bedroom setting. The visual anachronism this creates enables the performance of an inherited subjectivity. The mythologies and memories that the artist has inherited from her father (and have been reinforced through media images) are present, even quotidian, in their influence, despite not having been experienced directly.
In the action of re-doing these gestures, they are also embodied and made present again; past and present become co-located in the image, and this opens the work to imaginings of how the costume pieces and posture, clearly meant for someone else, have come to be ‘worn’ by this body.
Medium
5 pigmented inkjet prints (2019)
Images created while in residence at 360 Xochi Quetzal, Chapala, Mexico
