In this photographic series the artist recreates choreographic scores from the 1976 Argentinian military dictatorship. The series explores memories inherited by the generation that came after the dictatorship.
The gestures she uses reference military bodies, histories, and actions that are recontextualised by their relocation to domestic settings. The visual anachronism this creates produces a performance of an inherited subjectivity. The mythologies and memories that the artist has inherited from her father, which have been reinforced through media images, are present and made quotidian here, despite not having been experienced by the artist directly.
In the action of re-doing these gestures, they are also (re)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
