80 Bullets Over the Wing

I wonder what it means to reconstruct a tragedy: is it to return to the zero fragment of the nightmare to organise the shards of that pain, or is it to retell the story, to knead it, to reinvent it and share it until the poison dissolves? 

 

Absences, absence, lead and gunpowder, joy and life frozen by the green Falcons. A city on the dissection table. La Plata in 1975 as the setting for this journey in search of Mario, my father, of the story that binds us forever as a misty and fragmented mirror of other stories, so many, indelibly marked by that time of bullets and wings. 

 

Pablo Gershanik, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, 2017

 

80 Bullets on the Wing is a project by Pablo Gershanik and Julián Teubal awarded by the Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, the French Institute of France and Argentina, El Centquatre and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris has been presented in museums and galleries in Argentina, France and Canada.