Time latencies. Memory and archive in an installation by Albertina Carri

Abstract

Within the framework of a series of theoretical concerns that articulate memoirs, archives and subjectivities, I’m interested in certain contemporary aesthetic materials related to our recent traumatic past, which open the languages of the memory into other records and temporalities. In this work, I will make an approximation to the multiple audiovisual installation Operación Fracaso y El Sonido Recobrado, de Albertina Carri , filmmaker and visual artist with a long history in our country, whose movie Los rubios (2003) about her parents’ disappearance, marked a turning point in the ways of conceiving the stories of the past and the rhetorics of memory. The installation —which was exhibited in the Parque de la Memoria de Buenos Aires, From September to November 2015— consists of five parts (Presente, Allegro/A piace, Cine puro, Operación fracaso y Punto impropio) and is accompanied by a catalog with texts by the artist and the curators of the work. Each axis of the exhibition is much more than bringing the past to the present, it is an evocation of her parents through the threads of her inheritance, where the artist (already older than her parents and also a mother) wonders again about the powers of the unclosed memory.