Memory Works

The Cambridge Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series

A lecture and conversation with artist Marcelo Brodsky

Marcelo Brodsky (1954) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An artist and political activist, Brodsky was forced into exile in Barcelona following General Videla’s coup in Argentina in 1976. He studied economics at the University of Barcelona as well as photography at the Centre Internacional de Fotografia (Barcelona). During his stay in Spain, he took photographs that immortalized the psychological state of an expatriate. In 1984, when the military dictatorship was over, he went back to Argentina and began his project Buena Memoria, a visual essay that deals with the collective memory of the years under the dictatorship inspired by the emotions and personal experiences of those who lived through it. Situated on the border between installation, performance, photography, monument and memorial, his pieces blend text and images, often using figures of speech.Brodsky is an active member of the human rights organization Asociación Buena Memoria, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parque de la Memoria, a sculpture park and large monument with names and a gallery, built in Buenos Aires to the memory of victims of state terrorism. In 2008 he was awarded the Bnai Brith prize for Human Rights in Argentina. In 2014, he received the Jean Mayer Award from Tufts University Global Leadership Institute. [For a full biography visit: https://marcelobrodsky.com/bio/?lang=en]About The Cambridge Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series:The MaCA Seminar meets every other week during full term at 5pm, hosting a range of speakers including scholars, artists and curators. For the academic year 2021/22 the open meetings will take place remotely via zoom and at the History of Art Department when possible. A Zoom link will be circulated via email to those who register.Convenors of the Cambridge Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series 2021/22 are Prof Alyce Mahon (am414@cam.ac.uk) and Dr Sofia Gotti (sg959@cam.ac.uk).Image: Marcelo Brodsky, Resistencia Poética (Poetic resistance), 2021 (Detail), Black and white archival photograph © Federico Rios Escobar, 2021 intervened with handwrit- ten texts &amp; painted with crayon and watercolor. Print with hard pigment inks on Hahnemühle paper | Fotografía de archivo blanco y negro © Federico Rios Escobar, 2021 intervenida con textos y pintada a mano con crayón y acuarela. mpresión con tintas de pigmentos duros sobre papel Hahnemülhe, 45 × 60 cm, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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