In 1973, a military coup d’état rocked Chile, rendering imprisonment, torture, and disappearance daily occurrences. This repeated assault on the social fabric motivated hundreds of people to take to the streets in protest of the lack of information about their relatives. To this day, the military has yet to address the fate of the missing, but their disappearance has affected the country profoundly.

Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, the exhibition “OBRABIERTA: El tiempo, la vida, la información” (OBRABIERTA: Time, Life, Information) focused on an ongoing body of work that Hernán Parada started