The exhibition 50 years of the coup d'état: 1973-2023

Casa del Arte UdeC inaugurates exhibition in commemoration of 50 years of the coup d'état

The exhibition “50 years of the coup d'état: 1973-2023” will remain on display in the Tole Peralta Room of the Casa del Arte UdeC until next October 29.

Last Tuesday, September 12, the inauguration of the exhibition "50 years of the coup d'état: 1973-2023" took place at the Casa del Arte UdeC, carried out within the framework of the institutional program to commemorate the coup d'état at the University of Concepción .

As cultural expressions, images present and/or represent the singularities of a culture. In this sense, the set of expressions arranged in this room has the intention of accounting for the resistance that has arisen in different territories in the face of the systematic violations of Human Rights committed by agents of the Chilean State. From various fields, such as arts, journalism, history, memory and archives, this exhibition is an act of commemoration that wants to remember the compatriots who died or suffered due to state violence.

The Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations and Links with the Environment, Dr. Ximena Gauché Marchetti, explains that this exhibition “has a lot of meaning due to the historical promotion of the University of Concepción with the visual arts. “However, this activity has a particularity because it unites this commitment to the expression of visual arts with the commemoration of September 11, but also in a collaborative and participatory way with the community,” she said.

Thus, the exhibition included not only works from the Casa del Arte UdeC Collection, but several people from the Penquista community were invited to participate actively, with works, texts or testimonies.

The curator of the Pinacoteca UdeC, Samuel Quiroga Soto, commented that this exhibition “we think about it from a human perspective, recognizing an important fact: since September 11, 1973, human rights were violated, which in fact the country had subscribed to that same statement. There is an incongruity in our State that we wanted to highlight. For memory, so as not to forget and not to repeat. And on the other hand, the invitation to artists and other people to participate aims to invite the community to think together. That's why it's as a team,” he stated.

One of the people summoned, journalist Dayana Arrepol Zúñiga, points out that “this historical event, the military coup and all its consequences, has generated very diverse stories throughout the country.” “I had the opportunity to participate and tell my family story, which has to do with the trauma that a relative of mine experienced. In that sense, the creation of a participatory sample invites us to deliver something from different perspectives and ways of experiencing these traumas and pain,” the journalist concluded.

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