The prominent Chilean documentary photographer exhibits 1,350 photos that portray 30 years of images of Chile, 150 of them in large format and 1,200 in a huge mural of postcards like a family album. Ritos y memoria, visual anthology is his emblematic record of our recent history, from his beginnings in the protests against the dictatorship and his time in the legendary Association of Independent Photographers (AFI), to his series of indigenous peoples in the north of the country.
There are children who think that the past was black and white. That is the power of images. Our memory is largely built by what others saw and recorded. Claudio Pérez (1957) is one of them. One who started taking photos during the dictatorship due to the political need to denounce, and who took them in black and white to avoid the color laboratories of the time, where anyone could be an informer. And that continued, exploring the north, the traditions of Andean peoples and the richness of color.
Self-taught, Pérez was a member of the relevant and legendary Association of Independent Photographers (AFI) and has published his images in media such as Newsweek, Der Spiegel and Gatopardo. The exhibition Ritos y memoria, visual anthology is a selection of more than a thousand photos made by curators Monserrat Rojas and Héctor López and that covers 30 years of outstanding career.
Along with the exhibition, a documentary will be shown in which the film director Sebastián Moreno gives an account of Pérez's work, a story with the author's own voice. There will also be a conversation forum on June 3 and a book of the same name with images from the exhibition will be presented on July 7.
Sun — 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Building B, floor -1