Villa Grimaldi: Archeology of Memory
Villa Grimaldi: Archaeology of Memory is a multimedia presentation that includes music, poetry, oral history, photographs, gigantographics, artifacts, and film.
The multimedia exhibit is a triptych that gathers the art work and the experiences of seven artists who were detained in one of the most infamous torture centers during the military dictatorship of Pinochet: Villa Grimaldi. The work is a creation of Quique Cruz, and includes a multimedia installation, a musical suite, a book, and a documentary film.
Quique interviewed, photographed and filmed a group of artists--poets, painters, writers, dancers, playwrights, musicians-- who have created a narrative in which they explore the contradictions of terror and aesthetics, the notion of pain and beauty and how to convert darkness into light.
The installation-performance can be set in an appropriate theater, museum or cultural center that has space for an art exhibit and can be displayed for a month or two. Quijeremá will open the exhibit by performing the musical suite, read poems, and together with oral history will tell the story of how art and artists have prevailed in spite of political violence.
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