Art and memory: Expressions of resistence and subjective transformations facing political violence

This review article has as purpose to collect and make a preliminary systematization of researches and texts about theoretical or investigative reflection about the relation between art and collective memories in armed conflict, dictatorships and political repression contexts. Methods: In the process were reviewed Data Basis like Scopus, Redalyc, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Scielo and Dialnet. There were collected Social Sciences articles and other texts about collective memory with the final purpose of identifying the forms through which art has been a vehicle and a vector for the conservation, transmission and expression of subaltern memories. All the information was analyzed according to the method of category analysis by matrices, following an intratextual procedure of coherence, an intertextual procedure and a theoretical codification that allowed to intersect categories with the geographic frame of the actions. Results: It started from researches about the artistic productions in relation with the called “Memory spots”, related with the iconography, the mythology and the official History of the nation-state, to go forward to expressions of memory in which the formal art and the professional artists are linked to the mnemonic construction in their own countries contributing with new elements to the remembrance, the representation of the history and the elaboration of horror and collective traumas. Conclusion: The relation between art and memory enables resistance to the official history, in the vindication of the victim’s rights, in the reconstruction of the social tissue or the battle for justice. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.

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