Her eyes were blue
"Love is a serious thing. A practice for the flesh, a responsibility for the heart." Eduardo Bleier Horovitz
I appeal to the ground that contained the hidden bones of three victims of state terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Uruguay. Using an ancient and manual photographic technique, I made a large-scale cyanotype with soil extracted from the graves of Eduardo Bleier, Julio Castro
and Ricardo Blanco, disappeared. On the beach "de los ingleses" I took the photograph and developed it on the shore of the Rio de la Plata, in front of the Carlos 300 R detention and torture centre. An audiovisual documenting the creative process. With the land where their remains were found, I plant a rose bush, the glass pot allows you to see the land that hid three disappeared victims of state terrorism for more than three decades. I look for the energy left in the earth, generating an image that is a collective gear.
My gratitude to : the families of Bleier, Castro and Blanco. To the National Institute of Human Rights. To the Honorary Commission of Sites for Memory. To the forensic investigation team. To the Human Rights Prosecutor's Office. To Luis Aldabe and Zenia Toribio. To Emilio Toribio and Olira Viñas, in my memory and heart forever. Work exhibited at the EAC from 10 December 2020 in the 59th National Visual Arts Salon.
Work selected for the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales 2020.
Audiovisual production Pablo Sosa.