Dedicated to Vicente Merino Jarpa A series of secret documents leaked into the public eye in the mid 90s. They revealed the existence of secret armies (stay-behind operations) set in place and organised by the CIA and NATO in order to avoid the seizure of power from the left in post-war Europe. The story of […]
Voluspa Jarpa’s participation, only Chilean artist to be invited to the 12th Shanghai Biennale- 2018, consists in the intervention of the access zone of the Hall of the Biennale with a large size work that dialogues with the industrial architectural space where the Biennale develops. The intervention consists in documentary and archive material from Latin […]
The work raises the relationship between archival material as a fundamental factor in the construction of history and, on the other extreme, its manipulation as the impossibility of history. The Tlatelolco Massacre is a milestone in the history of Mexico-and Latin America-which is presented as a symbol of the Dirty War and the Cold War, […]
Voluspa Jarpa has developed an artistic practice in recent years that revolves around treatments and uses of the archive as aesthetic source and as generator of new reality. Based on declassified intelligence documents and of documents yielded by trials, Jarpa relates vestiges of periods of dictatorship in countries like Chile, Paraguay and Brazil -all of […]
A series of secret documents leaked into the public eye in the mid 90s. They revealed the existence of secret armies (Stay-behind operations) set in place and organised by the CIA and NATO to avoid the seizure of power from the left in post-war Europe. The story of Operation Gladio -the codename for a Stay- […]
The intervention work entitled CUERPO POLÍTICO/ Archivos públicos y secretos (POLITICAL BODY/ Public and Secret Archives) proposes through five pieces, the correlation of historical documents and materiality associated with the writing of legal texts, as a historical correlation that reflects different social, political and technical processes in which the writings and paradigms involved in the […]