ARCHIVO + ARTE / ART + ARCHIVE

During an internship at the Andrés Bello Archive of the Universidad de Chile, Mariana finds documents from the time of former president Balmaceda about expulsions of scholars from the Universidad de Chile. Mariana took these documents and using digital media such as video, drew, wrote and traced anew a part of Chilean political history, comparing these episodes with the most recent military dictatorship.

It’s about the using of new media to talk about the past, in which the re-writing of the text from 1981 and the recording of its gesture brings it up to the present, giving it new senses.