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In 1970, the election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile was heralded as the “revolution without arms.” On September 11, 1973 his term was cut short by a US-backed military coup. Thousands of Chileans soon joined the growing population of political refugees fleeing the brutality of right-wing dictatorships in the southern continent. Chile Solidarity Committees sprung up all over the world, also in West Germany, and were organized to generate awareness and financial support for families in exile. Their activities included blood donation—a means of raising cash but also a solidarity act with biopolitical implications. The photo album seen here belongs to a then teenage girl, who, like many of her generation, first became politically active through this internationalist solidarity movement. Featured in her album is an event surrounding the visit of Isabel Allende, daughter of Salvador Allende, to Germany on the first anniversary of the coup.
This photo album was on view in the exhibition exp. 1: The Bones of the World (7.9.–9.11.2019) at 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint. Photo: Mathias Völzke.
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with two of four curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale
María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
Maternidades subversivas
María Llopis
Monograph
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Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
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Freiheit für Chile!
Anonymous
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