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Images and Cultural Consumption. Figurations of Power and Resistance

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No. 20 (2023): April-September. Dossier: Inside, outside and against institutions: Latin American aesthetic practices in the era of mass consumption and contemporary techno-capitalism (1950-2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.70098

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The aim of this article is to analyse a portion of the visual production of Argentine artist Noemí Escandell starting from her materialities, historical memories and cultural consumption. We will consider graphic pieces including Curriculum Vitae (1992), Diario El Blanco (1995), Daños colaterales (A 20 años del golpe) (1996), Algo habrás hecho (1998) and Desaparecido (1999), where the use of photo montage represents an aesthetic, poetic, and political strategy. These pieces, known as Handing works, highlight a series of visual tensions between a variety of iconographic sources. Given their exhibition formats, they question the legitimized system of museum institutions, portray a series of exchange practices with the viewer and trace new modes of dissemination and circulation within the museum. The final reflections will help establish some articulations between Escandell's Handing works with the notions of cultural consumption posed by Néstor García Canclini and of museum frictions proposed by Corinne A. Kratz and Ivan Karp, underlining the effects generated by these pieces in public spaces.

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visual arts, cultural consumption, graphics, memory, politics

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Lucero, M. E. (2023). Images and Cultural Consumption. Figurations of Power and Resistance. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (20), 13–38. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.70098
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