One of the struggles taking place in Argentina today is how to commemorate the lost and make reparations. By 1982, economic unrest had worsened, and the military government launched a war in the Falklands against the British (at which point America supported the British), in the hopes of winning back the people. They lost the war and soon fell from power. However, the years of civilian government that followed were fragile, and the military was able to ensure what Weschler, for one, calls "lavish" security for themselves, invoking various statutes that limited their accountability for the crimes they had committed. According to one report, some 300 of those indicted for crimes are still at large. How do you memorialize crimes that no one committed—and that aren't legally prosecutable anymore? In this piece, Ana Tiscornia turns old portrait frames against the wall, exposing the peeling, anonymous backing of what, on an earlier viewing, had once been a visible face.


Ana Tiscornia, Retratos II (Portraits II), 2000. Image courtesy the artist and El Museo del Barrio, New York.


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