Patrimony

Framed in the commemoration of the 50 years, a hundred artists and groups bring together the exhibition that will open on November 4 at the National Center for Contemporary Art.

“We are still time: art and resistance 50 years after the coup” is the name of the exhibition that opens on November 4 and can be seen until March 2024 at the National Center for Contemporary Art (CNAC). Under the curatorship of Florencia San Martín and Claudia del Fierro, the exhibition takes its name from a verse in the poem Anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriela Mistral, included in the collection of poems Lagar.

The exhibition is part of a series of activities and exhibitions that, since the end of 2022, the CNAC has carried out as part of the commemoration of the 50 years of the Coup d’état.

“This exhibition condenses an important and significant part of the work that we have been proposing in recent years from the CNAC. It responds not only to the need to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état, but also allows the activation of two of its work axes, called ‘Territories and memories’ and ‘Feminisms and activisms; Likewise, it allows the exhibition and value of the works of contemporary art that are part of the visual arts heritage belonging to the Ministry of Culture,” says the director of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Soledad Novoa Donoso.

About the sample

The proposal is built from the contemporary art collection of the Undersecretary of Cultures and the Arts, complemented by pieces from other collections. It is divided into five sections: Sonic Memorials, Ecologies of Reciprocity, Urgent Architectures, Transnational Solidarities, and Encounters: Archives in Action.

The thematic axes proposed by the curators, as well as the works and archives that comprise it, invite us to reflect on recent history from contemporary art in the country and the place of resistance that it produces.

“Recognizing the role of imperialism and global capitalism in the events that designed the dictatorship and that still affect all ways of life in the neoliberal present, the exhibition invites a broad and diverse audience to work around a collective practice of justice and reparation through art as a communal form of liberation,” the curators agree.

Among the hundred artists from various disciplines and generations present in the exhibition are the Buenos Aires collective Písimo Servicio, the Magellanic collective Última Esperanza, Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Ingrid Wildi, the Brazilian photographer Armindo Cardoso, Tárix Sepúlveda, Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira, Ángela Ramírez and Guísela Munita, the visual artist and pioneer of video art, Juan Downey, the visual artist and representative of Chile at the 58th Venice Biennale, Voluspa Jarpa, the photographer, Luis Poirot, the visual artist and Founding member of CADA, Juan Castillo , as well as the Gonzalo Díaz National Fine Arts Awards (2003); Alfredo Jaar (2013); Paz Errázuriz (2017); Cecilia Vicuña (2023), among others.

We are still the time: art and resistance 50 years after the coup, considers a public program that will begin with the eponymous colloquium on November 8 and 9, which will be followed by a meeting with self-managed spaces in the Valparaíso region, laboratories and tours mediated by the sample. The program also includes different instances of activation of works and archives by the artists on display, and by community groups such as the organization of women weavers Domo Witral Warriache, the Mapuche organization Rayen Foye and the organization of workers who defend the right to housing, Ukamau Cerrillos.

We are still time: art and resistance 50 years after the coup

Curators: Florence San Martin and Claudia del Fierro Curatorial Assistant: Carolina Arévalo Museographic Design: Pedro Chavarri Venue: National Center for Contemporary Art, CNAC (Av. Pedro Aguirre Cerda 6100, Cerrillos) Date: November 4, 2023 – March,

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