At the end of 1978, fifteen human remains were found in the furnaces of an abandoned cal mine in the Lonqu\u00e9n sector, southwest of Santiago. They were the bodies of fifteen local peasants who had been detained by police in October 1973, less than a month before the military coup. Almost exactly ten years later, on 12 January 1989, Gonzalo D\u00edaz exhibited his installation \u2018Lonqu\u00e9n\u2019 for the first time at the Ojo de Buey gallery in Santiago: \u2018Only after ten years of metabolic retention, of looking at what those half-point photographic jaws hide \u2013 architecture appropriate to the magnitude of a massacre \u2013 has it become possible for me to directly confront the Via Crucis of this terrifying matter,\u2019 said the artist in the catalogue for that exhibition.<\/p>\n
According to Pablo Oyarz\u00fan, the restraint D\u00edaz refers to “is not simply due to willpower, discipline and conscious control, but has been forced by the blinding evidence of ruin, of that kind of funerary monument of \u201cstone upon stone\u201d (…) A restraint that is an admirable exercise in survival in art; in the survival of art, one might say, ‘in the midst of catastrophe.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the end of 1978, fifteen human remains were found in the furnaces of an abandoned lime mine in the Lonqu\u00e9n area, south-west of Santiago. They were the bodies of fifteen local farmers who had been detained by police in October 1973, just under a month before the military coup… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":13,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-4997","exposicion","type-exposicion","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n