The danger of banalizing past state violence and forgetting its tangible, visceral realness is one that exists throughout the Southern Cone of Latin America. In an effort to revive the memory of Brazil’s military dictatorship, it is useful to look to neighboring countries and share experiences and methods for communicating collective trauma.
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Mado Reznik Remembers 30000
How do contemporary artists remember dictatorship beyond Brazil? Argentinian Madó Reznik recounts the violence of her country's last civil-military dictatorship in a series of installations centered on the 30,000 dead and disappeared.