Memoria de piedra

In August 2003 Chile's Public Works Ministry took down the marble plaques of the Detained and Disappeared Memorial in the General Cemetery in order ot modify the list of names. As the plaques were being removed, they were treated carelessly and broke into pices. The marble slabs turned into irregular fragments containing pieces of names, dates, letters, crosses, etc. Afterwards, they were disposed of as rubble in an open-air lot. In March 2004, Manuela Biedma learned of these stone remains. She contacted sculptor and photographer Luis Práto (b. Chile, 1968) and they visited the lot, began a photographic register and collected samples of the stones. After a study of the physical possibilities, a visual project took form and resulted in this exhibition.