Gabriela & Violeta, who starred in a new web series on GAM in 2017, were interviewed in the last episode “as two new presidential candidates” by Mónica Rincón emulating CNN Prime. There, they commented and debated topics such as child protection, inequality, gender violence, discrimination and corruption without mincing words.
The two artists were also interviewed in El Mercurio, material that is printed next to the figures in the GAM plaza.
GAM's director of communications and marketing, Ximena Villanueva, commented on the institution's commitment to this communication action: "We know songs and poems by Violeta and Gabriela, but we wanted to imagine how they would dialogue today. We investigated and found messages of great lucidity for the Chile we are living in. We wanted to bring them together and bring them closer to our audience who visit us and to those who talk to us on social networks so that they could speak to us with the same conviction that made them leave sectors rural until they are recognized internationally. It is a digital curatorship, but without losing sight of the public who visits us in person.”
Here is part of the interview, whose answers are texts compiled from verbatim quotes from the poet and the folklorist:
Gabriela, what do you think of the animosity present in this year's public debate?
Hatred is monotonous; the complete opposite of love. Hate always repeats and repeats the same saying, until it becomes tiring and unbearable.
And you, Violeta, what do you think of the aggressiveness that we have seen on social networks?
I don't know why my God generously gives a hat with so much ribbon and to someone who doesn't have a head.
What do you think about the cases of corruption, Violeta?
It is better in this world to be clean of feeling, many wear white clothes and God save me inside.
Gabriela, being a teacher in Chile is still very difficult, what would you say to your colleagues today?
Teacher: teach Bolívar's dream in your class (...) do not be drunk on Europe, intoxicated with what is foreign because of what is distant and strange, and also outdated.