Memory(s) and creation about the last military dictatorship in Argentina (2003-2019)

Abstract

This paper is focused on the memorial activism in the Argentinean society about the recent past. During the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), an illegal, repressive and systematic violence was used by the military and their civilian accomplices. The slogan “memory, truth and justice” illustrates the social demands provoked by this violence. Forty years after the end of the dictatorship, part of civil society still puts forward these revindications. These claims are inserted in the public space and the cultural sphere. In the last two decades, the transmission of individual memories and the denunciation of the last dictatorship’s illegal repression have been reflected in a diversity of productions, particularly artistic ones. In this paper, we put forward two types of memorial creations: murals and tiles; wondering how part of civil society commemorates the last dictatorship’s victims and narrates this traumatic past.