Making the Past Perceptible: Reflections on the Temporal and Visual Enframings of Violence in the Museum of Memory in Uruguay

The "museums of memory" (museos de la memoria) have become ambiguous and conflictive sites that articulate the demand for remembrance and oblivion as regards the recent past of state authoritarianism and dictatorships in Latin America. This article seeks to disentangle ways of reading one...

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Published in:Journal of educational media, memory, and society memory, and society, 2012-09, Vol.4 (2), p.94-111
Main Author: Draper, Susana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Art exhibitions
Art museums
Atrocities
Authoritarianism
Dictators
Dictatorship
Educational Media
Human rights
Installation art
Memory
Military dictatorship
Museum exhibits
Museums
Political debate
Prisoners
Prisons
Syntax
Violence
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Summary:The "museums of memory" (museos de la memoria) have become ambiguous and conflictive sites that articulate the demand for remembrance and oblivion as regards the recent past of state authoritarianism and dictatorships in Latin America. This article seeks to disentangle ways of reading one of these spaces of memory, the Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo, Uruguay, paying special attention to a particular exhibition wing entitled The Prisons and to a temporary art installation by Daniel Jorysz, entitled Ver ... dad, exhibited in an open space adjacent to the museum from September to November 2010. Analyzing the museum collection and establishing a counterpoint with the art installation, the article searches for the ways in which (hi) stories are made perceptible within these practices both on the inside and outside, and expose the conflicts that arise in the process.
ISSN:2041-6938
2041-6946
DOI:10.3167/jemms.2012.040206