The piece synthesizes the relationship between the utopian political projects and their dystopian becoming, revealed in the declassification of secret U.S. secret files. This gallery of Latin American political leaders who held public office as presidents, presidential candidates, archbishops, senators, deputies, commanders-in-chief, and ministers of state, were assassinated or tragically killed in the last 60 […]
The 60 images gathered in the work Leer el tiempo, correspond to images that appear in the archives of the North American Intelligence Agencies, referring to countries of the Southern Cone of Latin America. The condition in which these images burst into the secret intelligence documents makes them sometimes make visible events that took place […]
De lo artilugios cotidianos is a series that proposes the construction of devices formed by encyclopaedias of Latin American History, compendiums of documents of the North American intelligence services about the countries of the region and tools of daily uses and trades. The work proposes a material and mechanical combination of these elements in such […]
Based on the news of the existence of 40 notebooks detailing the destruction of 19 thousand documents belonging to the period of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) by the now extinct SNI (Serviço Nacional de Inteligência), which are now kept in the National Archive of Brasília, the work proposes to work with the narrative of the […]
The piece confronts the ideas of utopia and dystopia in the recent history of Latin America through the “suspicious” deaths of 5 Latin American presidents that are still under investigation: – João Goulart, president of Brazil, overthrown in Coup d’Etat in 1964 and killed by Operation Condor in 1976. – Salvador Allende of Chile, president […]
Recently, I have come across documents of judicial expert reports stating that Salvador Allende, president of Chile, may have not committed suicide, since he has bullet holes that are not consistent with what Chilean history has stated about his death on the day of the coup d’état in 1973. The body of Pablo Neruda has […]