ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses both on the curatorial interface as a work of art in its own right and on the constituent works within it, exploring how they engage in memory preservation and link memory to the recuperation of, and re-signification of physical place. The key location under scrutiny in the chapter, and with which the curatorial interface, and the constituent works dialogue, is Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires, and its principal sites of memory. The detention centres, established early in the dictatorship and sites of systematic torture, abuse and killing of thousands of Argentineans, are prominent sites of memory in contemporary Argentina. The Plaza de Mayo is the political centre of Buenos Aires, flanked by buildings housing the major offices of state, including the Casa Rosada presidential palace, the Ministry of the Economy and the National Security Service, as well as the Banco de la Nacion Argentina and the Metropolitan Cathedral.
