BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa has turned declassified CIA documents into an exhibit focused on one of Latin America’s darkest periods.
The show, which also includes videos, audios and paintings, opened this week in Buenos Aires at the Museum of Latin American Art, known as MALBA.
For more than a decade, Jarpa collected declassified documents with information on the region’s dictatorships that killed and forcibly “disappeared” thousands of people during the 1970s and 1980s.
Hundreds of copies of papers documenting the brutalities of the regimes have been hung from the high ceilings of the museum’s main hall for the exhibition, “In Our Little Region Over Here.”
“This seeks to construct an image of Latin America through the documents that the U.S. has declassified,” Jarpa recently told reporters at the museum. “We wanted to interpose this huge architectural space with these declassified files to show the enormity of their volume.”