ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the National Stadium has been turned into a memorial of human rights violations, in which the aesthetics of ugliness and horror have been replaced by the aesthetics of peace, art, and defence of human rights. In Chile, however, various civil society groups have made great demands that the Chilean state recognize its culpability in past human rights violations. It is a place that unites for the first time unpublished material, donated by Chilean and foreign photographers, who portrayed Chile from the Popular Unity's taking power, until November 9, 1973. Despite these policies, which made the discursive construction and intergenerational transmission of memories very difficult to work on in this country, human rights violations were eventually made publicly known over the years. It is possible to divide its history into three periods: the space for sports, the place for torture, and place for memories. Originally the National Stadium came into being as the largest stadium in Chile.
