Objetos-testigo. Fracturas y recompiosiciones del relato indennitario

The presentation will be divided into three movements: fractures, reconstructions and
archives. Each movement will correspond to a different typology of objects: shoes, nails and
beams, clothes. The aim is to show the process of defamiliarization/refamiliarization of some of
the objects present in the testimonial stories of Miguel Lawner (Return to Isla Dawson) and Marta
Dillon (Aparecida), as well as in a corpus of photographic images ((Javier García, Lourdes
Almeida, Gustavo Gutiérrez) and artistic and performative works (Alfredo López Casanova,
Colectivo de Hijos, Elina Chauvet, Doris Salcedo). As a whole, they are objects that exhibit
resistance and resilience, creations that are opposed to “counter creation” – as Primo Levi
defines it – programmed by the concentration-based universe. Through them the
autobiographical story broken by the seizure or by the disappearance returns to “get in
shape” (Arfuch, 2013), having been centered on the metonymic eloquence of the object.