ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the different valences the image of the bombardment has had in Chile since its first iterations. It briefly outlines the notions at play in this inquiry and then analyzes three moments in the iteration of the image. In the first moment, when the dictatorship is in power It expresses that the image rapidly acquires an allegoric value that tends toward the symbolic/mythical. In the second moment, the image becomes an important element in the visual articulation of two ways of conceiving the relation between the present and the traumatic event. The third moment devises new strategies that counter the growing reification and normalization of the image and, as a consequence, the Chilean archive. The chapter also analyzes two iterations of the image in this last moment, its projection in Andres Wood's film Machuca and in Alfredo Jaar's work September 11, 2013 that counter the aforementioned reification in a gesture as a specific declassification of the archive.
