A past that does not pass: visual commemorations of the La Plata flood (2013, Argentina)
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| Médium: | artículo original |
| Stav: | Versión publicada |
| Datum vydání: | 2026 |
| Popis: | This paper examines places of memory and commemorative aesthetic-visual practices developed in the city of La Plata (Argentina), in the aftermath of the major flood that occurred on April 2, 2013. The analysis focuses on the dimension of post-disaster memory, understood as a collective, situated, and contested construction. Through various forms of visual expression –such as murals, stencils, monuments, and exhibitions in local museums– unofficial sites of memory were configured, enabling the narration of the traumatic experience from a community-based perspective. These visual interventions served as supports for the production of meaning, social bonds, and alternative forms of commemoration. This study addresses the following questions: How is the memory of a catastrophe represented? Who articulates it? Which memories are rendered visible and which are silenced?. The article proposes that art, far from being merely an aesthetic expression, plays an active role in the elaboration of collective trauma, generating forms of symbolic resistance to injustice and oblivion, and enabling new ways of speaking and inhabiting urban space |
| Země: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Instituce: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Jazyk: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/2263 |
| On-line přístup: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rdialogos/article/view/2263 |
| Klíčové slovo: | disaster collective memory places of memory urban space art desastre memoria colectiva lugares de memoria espacio público arte |