Project for a Memorial (Proyecto para un memorial)

Latin American Contemporary Art
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Project for a Memorial (Proyecto para un memorial)

Edition: 2/5

Colombia, Papoyán, 2005
Time Based Media
5 channel video, color, silent
.1-.5) DVD: 5 × 5 5/8 in. (12.7 × 14.29 cm); Storage box: 3 × 11 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (7.62 × 29.21 × 8.26 cm)
Anonymous gift in memory of David L. Meginnity (M.2006.148a-f)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Óscar Muñoz has created a stirring body of work that deals with notions of memory and loss as they relate to political violence in his home country of Colombia....
Óscar Muñoz has created a stirring body of work that deals with notions of memory and loss as they relate to political violence in his home country of Colombia. Project for a Memorial (Proyecto para un memorial) consists of video and photographic documentation. Using as a guide photographs of men and women found in the obituary pages of Colombian newspapers, Muñoz renders a likeness on a slab of stone or concrete. The images cohere rapidly, but each lasts only a minute or so, until time and evaporation begin to claim it. Five mounted screens or wall projections show the process from start to finish, a span of just a few minutes. The quick creation of the images and their swift dissolution is a poignant reminder of the evanescence of life. Ilona Katzew, 2008
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