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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Liminal
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantMaya Watanabe
- VenueM|A|C Prison
Liminal, 2019 © Maya Watanabe. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
From 1980 to 2000, Peru suffered through a time of violent internal conflict that claimed almost 70,000 lives. Waged on one side by the guerrilla groups Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) and, on the other, by the military, with peasant communities caught in between. More than two decades later, Peruvian society has yet to process the horrors wrought by this conflict; 16,000 people are still missing and some 6,000 mass graves await excavation.
Maya Watanabe’s film shows a close-up view of a mass grave, which shifts in and out of focus. As the image sharpens, fragments of bones, teeth and frayed clothing emerge from the soil, roots and rocks. Archaeological markers and measuring tools point toward their uncovering, though the images blur distinctions between them and the landscape within which they are set. Awaiting forensic identification, the skeletonized remains hover in a suspended, transitional legal status between missing and officially deceased. Liminal takes place during that transitional phase, concentrating on anonymised Peruvians who are on the threshold of subjecthood, recognition and representation.
2019
Single-channel video installation, 64’00”
Courtesy of the artist and tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam; and 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima
Produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation and supported by Mondriaan Fund
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