ABSTRACT
Claudia Fontes has an appointment with the past, because she missed that date that was significant to one of her, maybe only therefore unknown, cohort. If one's knowledge of what occurred during the last dictatorship is read onto the park, if one finds oneself scouring the monument for names that one recognises, if only through reading about them, there is clearly a process of projection at work. In Fontes own words, 'specific, figurative, descriptive, personalized and anchored to a time and place' precisely because she wanted to avoid the abstractions of both history and euphemism. Named Presentes Ahora y Siempre (PAyS), in 2011 it hosted a temporary exhibition by Graciela Sacco entitled Tension Admisible. Like the horizon in a photograph, one imagines the horizon of the past or indeed that of the future, even as we know them to be illusionary, which is to say, located, mere perspective.
