conelchilenoresistentearte, Solidaridad: Chile Vive, una Exposición en Espa？a contra el Chile Dictatorial

in 1987, chile vive, a mega-exhibition that included different artistic expressions, was performed in madrid to inform people about the cultural vitality of chile during their dictatorship. this essay will focus on a conceptual discussion about the problem of latin american art exhibitions abroad. it will analyze the configuration of the mentioned exhibition, focusing on visual arts as a unitary alignment of a political discourse of nation. the text will also examine the repercussion in the media of spain in that period of time. on the other hand, the article will develop some thoughts on the artists incorporations, exclusions and projections of chile vive, focusing on why the exhibition of chilean art abroad might be problematic, particularly the ones that belongs to this complex period of time; the military dictatorship.