Based on documents generated by the transnational State violence in the South Cone region in Latin America (1970–80), this presentation articulates the reproductions of contemporary visuality and the symbolic surplus value of the archive. On one hand, it looks at collections of images as documentation of political violence, and at the same time, examines the drift of these archives towards the production of art and the circulation of biopolitical memories in the era of the declassification (2000–10).
Cristián Gómez-Moya teaches political epistemology of the image at the University of Chile and is Professor of Visual Studies in the Cultural Studies MA Program at Arcis University. He is currently editor of Visual Research (Museum of Contemporary Art-MAC/UChile; Palinodia Editorial/Chile) and co-investigator of the project Archivos/Museos/Modernidades (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía/Spain).