Carmen Beuchat

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The new exhibition Embodied Absence looks at works of art from Chile in the 1970s - photos and videos - in the aftermath of the Pinochet coup. Art was created in highly coded language to evade censorship, and exhibited in public space in lieu of institutional support, using the human body as primary medium. Choreographer Carmen Beuchat is pictured during the dress rehearsal in the Carpenter Center at Harvard University. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

‘Disappearing’ Chilean art

In the years following Augusto Pinochet’s military coup, Chilean artists created works in fear and solidarity, and out of defiance. Many of those creations, from street art in Santiago to dance performances abroad, were ephemeral, making them difficult to historicize.

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‘Disappearing’ Chilean art