Artist Claudia Bernardi at Event for the preservation of historical memory in El Salvador
elsalvador.com :.: Realizan evento por la preservación de la memoria histórica salvadoreña
The above is a link for a discussion concerning the preservation of Historical Memory in El Salvador.
Claudia Bernardi international artist and educator at School of Art and Open Studio in Perquin an (international arts education program that serves youth and adults) in conversation with 'Santiago' and others in the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador, ES. Bernardi has some very interesting work in many places which are in a war or post war situation.
A native of Argentina she joined the AFAT (a forensic anthropology team established in 1984 under the new government in Argentina to supply evidence of violations of human rights carried out against civilian populations) in investigations of human rights violations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, and Ethiopia. In October, 1992, Bernardi joined her sister as an assistant at the El Mozote massacre site in El Salvador, located in a district where over one thousand men, women and children were murdered 11 years earlier by the Atlactacl Battalion, a U.S. trained counter-insurgency force.
She later created archeological maps and transcribed the testimonies of families of the “disappeared ones.” From this experience, Bernardi developed an art practice focusing on how art could be used to educate, and to articulate the memories of atrocity survivors. In 2004, Bernardi was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the College of Wooster, Ohio.
I am adding some examples of her work below...
Mural in Perquin (own photo 2008)
Machine of Untruth 1996
This is a mural that was created for the grandfathers and grandmothers of Perquin,'Mural de los Ninos de ayer'
The above is a link for a discussion concerning the preservation of Historical Memory in El Salvador.
Claudia Bernardi international artist and educator at School of Art and Open Studio in Perquin an (international arts education program that serves youth and adults) in conversation with 'Santiago' and others in the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador, ES. Bernardi has some very interesting work in many places which are in a war or post war situation.
A native of Argentina she joined the AFAT (a forensic anthropology team established in 1984 under the new government in Argentina to supply evidence of violations of human rights carried out against civilian populations) in investigations of human rights violations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, and Ethiopia. In October, 1992, Bernardi joined her sister as an assistant at the El Mozote massacre site in El Salvador, located in a district where over one thousand men, women and children were murdered 11 years earlier by the Atlactacl Battalion, a U.S. trained counter-insurgency force.
She later created archeological maps and transcribed the testimonies of families of the “disappeared ones.” From this experience, Bernardi developed an art practice focusing on how art could be used to educate, and to articulate the memories of atrocity survivors. In 2004, Bernardi was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the College of Wooster, Ohio.
I am adding some examples of her work below...
Mural in Perquin (own photo 2008)
Machine of Untruth 1996
This is a mural that was created for the grandfathers and grandmothers of Perquin,'Mural de los Ninos de ayer'
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