The exhibition proposes a display of alternative narratives, dialogues and reflections on the memory of the Chilean civil-military dictatorship and the Spanish Franco dictatorship, based on works by contemporary artists from both countries. The objective of the exhibition is to approach different generational points of view that problematize aspects of these pasts, through video pieces, photos, installations, paintings and drawings that will be exhibited together with pieces from the collection of the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos [Museum of Memory and Human Rights]. In this way, a crossover is made through operations, gestures and signs that activate individual and collective memories, in a transversal way and beyond the place of origin.
In the context of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile, it is pertinent to try to approach and understand how artists relate to pasts of these characteristics and how they have marked the societies they inhabit. That is why the exhibition is conceived as a sounding board and not as a static moment, where the elements of the present, the past and the prefiguration of the future reverberate in a complex framework that interpellates our own configuration of the world and refer to continue acting from new spaces of meaning.