Los desaparecidos-The disappeared. Catalogo della mostra

Disappear, desaparecidos. A verb transformed into a noun to describe those who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during Latin America's recent military dictatorships, especially during the 1970s in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. The Disappeared, a book, brings together the work of twenty- five living artists from South America who, over the course of the last thirty years, have made art about Los Desaparecidos or the disappeared. These artists have lived through the horrors of the military dictatorships that rocked their countries in the latter years of the twentieth century. Some worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others live in countries maimed by endless civil war. Disappearance is inevitably linked to torture.
Art born of the need to tell.
When Identidad, a collaborative installation made by thirteen Argentinean artists, opened in Buenos Aires, three people discovered their long-hidden identities. They had been taken at birth from those who opposed the government and adopted into military families.
Through such art these artists fight amnesia in their own countries as a stay against such atrocities happening again