Documentos extraviados

documentos extraviados
niños de chernobil

2017-2021

fotografía
intervención de archivo
video
música
instalación

curaduría jorge fernández torres
investigación maribel acosta damas & sonia cunliffe

Abril 2016

Nov 2016

Enero 2017

Julio 2019

Marzo 2019

Septiembre 2023

Lima Capilla Centro Histórico

Miami Art Basel Mana Contemporary

Cuba Galería Reino de este Mundo, Biblioteca Nacional

Fototeca de Cuba

Mantua Italia Bienale de la Fotografia Femenile

BIA Asunción Paraguay Estación Antigua del Ferrocarril

Eslovenia, Liubliana Centro para la memoria y los derechos humanos

Even today it is still difficult to establish the boundaries between the visual registry of any piece of art and the force of action it evokes. Nevertheless, when the work of art becomes process to transform itself into an archive within a certain context, art overtakes the document and enters into that ambiguous questioning of the imaginary limits between fiction and reality. This is the meaning of the exhibition presented by Peruvian artist Sonia Cunliffe, based on an investigation carried out by Cuban journalist Maribel Acosta. The nuclear disaster in Chernobyl and the demise of the Soviet Union and Socialism in Eastern Europe are contrasted with an event of great human transcendence such as the medical assistance provided in Cuba for two decades to more than 26 thousand children affected by the tragedy, while the island was undergoing its deepest economic crisis.

This exhibition counterpoints with what is visible or not as aesthetic experience, it intervenes in the way the media constructs its discourses and opens questions about the mutation of information depending on where it is placed. The artist is not obsessed with representing, but instead she presents an historical fact and alters the nature of any established tale in order to enter the interstices of life itself.

invitación

iglesia de santo tomás de aquino
lima, perú

Chernobyl : 01 · Intro

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Chernobyl 02 · DIRECTOR · Carlos Dotres

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Chernobyl 03 · DOCTORES · Varios

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Salud publica. Niños de Chernobil. Del primer grupo que el pasado año llegó a Cuba, sólo una quincena permanece con tratamiento.

Alexander, que se mantiene en un aislamiento estricto, habla telefónicamente con mamá. La Habitación permite a través de un cristal que la separa de un pasillo lateral, que el padre y sus familiares pueden verse también.

Enfermera en tratamiento de una niña sovietica