Paraguay rapé

In the installation Suite Villarrica, Marín recovers a family history of love and decision, the political turbulences that led her father, and so many other Paraguayans, to their exile in Buenos Aires, through superimposed images and found fragments. Luna Paiva generates a video of fictional atmosphere based on the images obtained by her father, the famous photographer Rolando Paiva, during his long upstream journey along the Paraná River; she revisits his world and already in the title, Paiva Paraná Paiva, installs the link between the two generations.
The video Yukyty (Campos de sal) by Joaquín Sánchez, works with the memory and the desire to overcome the traumas of the past. Exquisite and tragic beauty in the images of an old washerwoman who recalls, to the sound of the running water, the Acosta Ñu massacre (16/8/1869), when 3,500 Paraguayan children, disguised as soldiers, died in combat against 20,000 men of the allied forces. Ángel Yegros deals with history based on his own family tree. While he reads the moving poem written by his great grandfather Fulgencio –hero of the Independence − when he was in jail before being beheaded, as ordered by the dictator Francia, in the video Tekoha (El lugar del ser- The Place of Being) documents of narrations that had been kept secret are revealed. Then the reiteration of a song to creation and beauty re-balances the world.