An installation to rethink History...
12:29 p.m.
08/01/16 - Voluspa Jarpa (Chile, 1971) is an artist/investigator who decided to dedicate her time to study CIA's unclassified files related to military dictatorships in Latin America. The process of unveiling these facts related to Chile's history (although with limitations, because of the many crossing-outs in the documents) affects her deeply and moves her to create an object that would reflect her experience. However she also noticed the lack of interest in the people, because the files, available on line, had almost no visits.
What you see is what it is series , by Voluspa Jarpa (2016)
Materials: stainless steel, transparent acrylic, and backlight film strips / Measures: 1800 cm x 530 cm x 215 cm
The volume of these files is overwhelming: approximately 200.000 pages which Jarpa studied for more than 10 years. For her installation, she grouped some pieces as if they were filling boxes and then created long paper strips, which hang from the ceiling to the floor. In contrast to Donald Judd's minimalism, where what you see is what it is and just that, no message from the artist, Jarpa's installation is a criticism to the way and the content. United States exported this type of speechless art to Latin America in times of dictatorships and it was resisted. Now she, with her artwork, disrupts minimalism with the power of the files.
En nuestra pequeña región de por acá - Voluspa Jarpa
MALBA 2016
The exhibition also includes a pantheon of handmade portraits by Jarpa of presidents and authorities who died throughout those years in strange circumstances. "En nuestra pequeña región de por acá" is Voluspa Jarpa first museum exhibition and the first individual exhibition of a Chilean artist at the MALBA.
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