Retrace the form through Art. Ways of reading and building memory in Conjunto Vacío by Verónica Gerber Bicecci

Abstract

We propose an approach work in Conjunto vacío (2017) by the vi- sual artist who writes, Verónica Gerber Bicecci. We consider her biographical history, as well as the fact that she belongs to a second generation of daughters and sons of exiles. On this occasion, the emphasis is on the construction of a narrative memory (Jelin, 2002) through an artistic work with forms that includes the textual and the visual (Venn diagrams). We also focus on reading as a construction process that involves the reader / viewer (Rancière, 2010) in a space where what can be said becomes visible through the mixture, in this case, of text-diagram.

It is important to highlight the importance of a socio-cultural context that encompasses the dictatorship and post-dictatorship in Argentina, extending towards one of the countries that most received exiles during the Argentine military dictatorship: Mexico. Also relevant is the investigation of the cultu- ral productions of Sons and Daughters of the disappeared who were traversed by State terrorism (Basile, 2019) which we take here as a precedent for the analysis of the productions of young people who went through traumatic situations such as disappearance. of their parents and exiles.