The National Truth Commission comes up repeatedly in the exhibition. Faces, names, dates, and histories. “The number 434 is very low. It’s insufficient, and everyone recognizes that, including the truth report itself,” Seligmann-Selva says. That number does not include the estimated 8,350 indigenous people who were killed under the dictatorship due to government activity, for example, which is reported separately in the chapter <a href="http://200.144.182.130/cesta/images/stories/CAPITULO_INDIGENA_Pages_from_Relatorio_Final_CNV_Volume_II.pdf">"Violações de Direitos Humanos dos Povos Indígenas"</a> of the National Truth Commission.
But the exhibition proposes precisely that: to explore limits, silences, and continuities of official memory and add a dimensionality to the narratives of the past.
[Photo: Joca Duarte. Used with permission.]