Title: Golpes
Photographer(s): Alexis Díaz Belmar
Writer(s): Jorge Gronemeyer
Designer(s): Triple
Publisher(s): Haikén ediciones y Galería Zebra, Santiago del Chile, Chile
Year: 2022
Print run: 500
Language(s): Spanish
Pages: 44
Size: 19 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Ograma impresores, Santiago del Chile, Chile
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Chile, 2018-2022
ISBN: 9789560952820
Golpes is a publication by photographer Alexis Díaz Belmar that contains 28 photographs of the marks left by the shots fired during the 1973 coup d'état that are still visible on the buildings near the La Moneda palace, almost 50 years after the event.
Starting with the question of the origin of the social unrest experienced in Chile, Díaz Belmar resorts to a childhood image that marked him: the city walls pierced by the guns of the military. An image that invokes the horror of what happened in those days.
The photographer worked between 2018 and 2022 looking for this evidence in the centre of the city of Santiago. He walked through various streets and found several institutional buildings and homes that still bear these marks: the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Entel Tower, the Central Bank, the Bank of Chile, Paseo Bulnes, among others.
These marks, wounds in the skin of the city, constitute a living memory, the presence of the past in our present, which still leaves its invisible trail in its institutionality.
The book ends with a text by curator Jorge Gronemeyer on the occasion of the exhibition of the work at the Galería Sala de Máquinas in August 2022.
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