Keywords
Culture Trauma
Memory and Forgetting
Mexican Art XX and XXI Centuries
Gender.
Abstract
The book coordinated by the art historian Dina Comisarenco Mirkin constitutes a novelty in the field of visual arts in Mexico, but also in other fields such as cultural memory, gender studies and psychoanalysis; we can place the set of twelve articles that make up the book in a transdisciplinary perspective. The articles analyze different works produced in a variety of media and supports ranging from mural painting and graphics, to video, installation and film. Its articulating axis is the analysis of artistic production in the 20th and 21st centuries in Mexico in relation to violence, social trauma, memory and oblivion.
From theoretical positions and diverse perspectives, the authors pose interesting questions that had not been placed in a critical light by the hegemonic academic vision. While historiography and hegemonic memory try to erase violent and traumatic historical events by distorting or diluting their meaning, on the other hand, the construction or reconstruction of collective memory struggles to make it visible and elaborate it in an attempt to avoid its repetition. In the cases addressed in the book, the artistic work is considered as a site in which the contents of memory and oblivion are debated, which in their dialectic, contain potential for social transformation.
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