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Magnetic Balance

Magaly Ponce

1998 | 00:07:12 | Chile | English / Spanish | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | Video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Post-colonialism

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Incorporating appropriated television footage as artistic experimentation and social critique, Chilean artist Magaly Ponce retells a history of violence and repression from her point of view. Magnetic Balance is a self-portrait of the artist as a member of a generation she terms the "children of Pinochet." Recalling the circumstances surrounding the execution of a family friend in 1973 at the onset of the Pinochet dictatorship, Ponce reexamines her relationship to Chilean society. The opening image, the disassembly of an audio tape, opens up a poetic space where Ponce explores the reconstruction of memory and relative truth.

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