THE POLITICS OF THE ARCHIVE: VOLUSPA JARPA IN THE OFFICE
The work of Voluspa Jarpa (Rancagua, Chile, 1971) has had a very preeminent focus on the political concept surrounding archiving and its documents. Attracted to investigate more about its multiple meanings as a result of the declassification of secrets, specifically the one carried out by the Clinton administration regarding the 1973 coup d'état against Salvador Allende, the artist begins a discursive investigation on the importance of the archival support and the materiality it has as a political document, which leads her to qualify that presupposed legibility.
Within these parameters, Jarpa delves into the hidden, into the secret that, even when revealed, remains undisclosed, into those black strips that impede the total process of legibility and that elevate the declassified archive to perpetuate the refusal of absolute clarification, emphasizing with this function that the support also shows what is illegible.
In Política de las formas, the gallery La Oficina proposes a profound journey that starts from these theses. Through the space, we approach her vision of the hidden and visible process of the archive, of the symbology and imagery that brings us closer to it through infographics, documentary material, newspaper archive residues that reach a new meaning and, even so, not their full being. Her proposal also values the semiotics of the act, that which seems to punish and point out justice against the executors and that, nevertheless, can end up rewarding it with the fragmentation of evidence and proofs that make the logical sense of the archive disappear and mistreat, or condition, the vital function of its historical and historiographical record.
Jarpa's work will also bring us closer, in a tangential way, to the role of the plastic arts and their market and expansion as a propaganda weapon, especially in relation to the American practices of the immediate and present decades after the coup in Chile. The artist proposes to make this plot visible, linking it directly to the processes of construction, containment and destruction of memory and putting on the table its main axis: politics and the politics of the archives.
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Política de las formas can be seen until December 21 at La Oficina, Morenés Arteaga, 9, Madrid (Spain).
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