Curated by Laurel Reuter
June 18 - September 11, 2009
Rubin and L Galleries and Project Space
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The word "disappeared" was redefined during the
mid-20th Century in Latin America. "Disappeared" evolved into a noun
used to identify people who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by
their own governments in the latter decades of the twentieth century in
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela. Colombia with its
fifty-year civil war and Guatemala with its own thirty-seven-year civil
war further expanded the meanings and uses of "disappeared."
The exhibition contains work from thirteen artists and one artist'
collective from these countries, who over the course of the last thirty
years have made art about the disappeared. These artists have lived
through the horrors of the military dictatorships that rocked their
countries in the mid-decades of the twentieth century. Some worked in
the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared;
others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the
aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others have lived in
countries maimed by endless civil war.
This traveling exhibition, curated by the North Dakota Museum of Art,
will be exhibited jointly by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for
the Visual Arts, the Centennial Museum and the Union Gallery, all on
the UTEP campus. Campus departments and bi-national community arts
organizations will participate in collaborative programming over the
course of the exhibition, inviting broad community dialogue on the
issues presented.
Funded in part by the Lannan Foundation.
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*Will be in display on all three
galleries of the Rubin Center, in addition to the Centennial Museum and
the Union Exhibition Gallery