In her works Minimal Secret and Translation Lessons, Voluspa Jarpa asks whether the artistic use of archival material has an effect on history. Both works are the result of Jarpa’s yearslong engagement with declassified CIA files from Operation Condor in Chile between 1948 and 1994. Under this codename, the secret services of six Latin American […]
Serie lo que ves es lo que es correspond to the study of declassified archives from the US intelligence services during the period 1948-1994 and propose a revision of the fourteen Latin American countries’ history. In relation to these files, this group of works also problematizes the role of Minimalism, opposing its austerity to the […]
The first Biblioteca de la No-Historia consisted in the intervention of three Ulises Bookstores in Santiago with “books” containing these files classified as secret, and that, when declassified and removed from that condition, presented two main charactheristics: first, the large volume of information (allegedly Chile is the foreign country about which the U.S. has declassified […]
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Voluspa Jarpa has presented her project for the Chilean Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale under the title “Altered Views”. The project originates in a question the artist seeks to answer: how is the modernist, Eurocentric and colonial gaze configured? The gaze that later expands from Europe to the USA and constructs a symbolic contempt […]
The phenomenon of human zoos, exhibited in Europe, served to establish economic expansionist principles by building the notions of savages, the exotic and the others. From 1815 to 1958 they meant the popularization of European racism and the legitimization of the conquest over the territories of these non- European places. Since 1874, and taking Germany […]