Our doctoral student Samuel Espíndola Hernández has co-curated, along with Vania Montgomery (Universidad de Chile), the art exhibition Censura: El silencio puede ser un plan rigurosamente ejecutado (Censorship: Silence can be a plan rigorously executed) at the Museo de la Memoria de Santiago de Chile, one of the most relevant spaces in Latin America for the construction of a critical thought and a history of representation and politics. The exhibit opened in-person from October 2021 to February 2022.
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Samuel Espíndola, Ph.D student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at Stony Brook University. |
The exhibit explored the topic of censorship in Chile in historic cases, as in 1984 Pinochet’s regime prohibition to some oppositional media to print any images, in events related to the 2019 social uprising, and in racial or sexual discrimination in contemporary society. During the exhibition there was a public conversation with Ángeles Donoso (BMCC CUNY) y Sergio Rojas (Universidad de Chile), which was recorded on video.
Image: Diagram with key concepts. Designed by Vicente Domínguez (Image: V. Montgomery)
Samuel came to Stony Brook from Santiago de Chile and started his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures this past August 2021. He obtained his BA in literature from the Universidad de Chile and his MA in Art Theory and History from the same institution. His research interests include a critical examination of archives related to contemporary art and literature, the representation of violence and censorship, landscape and disaster, as well as popular culture.
Image: Bando 19 (detail) by Carlos Soto-Román (Image: V. Montgomery)