Voluspa Jarpa at the MALBA

Curated by Agustín Pérez-Rubio, the exhibition titled "In Our Small Region of over Here" is the first solo exhibition at a Latin American museum that presents the work by Voluspa Jarpa (Rancagua, Chile, 1971), an artist otherwise very active in the international biennial circuit. The exhibition consists of twelve pieces, including paintings, objects, installations, videos, sound recordings, and historical documents. The works center on two complementary and symbiotic lines of inquiry: on the one hand, the study of a collection of declassified US intelligence documents produced during the 1948-1994 period that Jarpa uses to establish connections between them and the art world, particularly US minimalism; and, on the other, the exhibition is proposed as a way to remember a group of Latin American leaders, active during the Cold War period, who occupied high level jobs and who were either assassinated or victims of unresolved crimes. "In Our Small Region of over Here" is a site-specific exhibition in which the exhibition space shapes the form of the works on display. First and foremost, the exhibition offers a review of declassified CIA documents in fourteen Latin American countries. Many of these documents have been altered to censor or conceal information. These alterations confer them the status of images that can be observed. The installation plays with that undefined area between text and image.