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Tear out the eyes is a project that proposes a constellation of works around the gaze, and its political dimension, focusing on the pattern of eye attacks by State security forces. This project arises from the shock of the tragic events that took place in Chile and Colombia in recent years and that have left hundreds of people with eye trauma due to the pellets fred by the police during the demonstrations. It was not only in Chile, it was not only in Colombia. It also happened in Palestine, in Catalonia, in France, in Hong Kong, in Colombia, in Brazil, in Kashmir. Where else? Since when? This method has been evolving since the Israeli- Palestinian confict: bullets aimed to the eyes of protesters to blind them, to mutilate them. At the same time that the devices of police repression increase and are perfected worldwide, the unresolved conficts in each country are strengthened and violence re-emerges, as if it had never gone away. Tear out the eyes, stop seeing, hide, cover, blind, make invisible, disappear. Tear out the eyes question about the immediately preceded moment of mutilation and about what remains after the tragedy. Inquires about the causes, about that violent purpose of generate a blind gaze. At the same time seeks to understand the possible ways to stop the loss of the memory of what the eyes saw: In turn for the possible ways to stop the loss of the memory of what the eyes saw: we imagine the possibility that the eyes return , let the images emerge from the ruins. The eyes return to the bodies, they return with the memory of their marks and their struggles, they return in a gesture of resistance, they return as a possible act of reparation.

Visual artist, curator and professor of Experimental Video and New Media in Argentina and abroad. She is the director of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM) in Buenos Aires and CONTINENTE, Research Centre for Audiovisual Arts, National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina. She is also the curator of “El Cine es otra cosa”, the experimental film and video programme at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. She is professor in the Electronic Arts career and in the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts at the National University of Tres de Febrero and in the University of Cinema. She works in video, installations and site-specific interventions. His works fundamentally raise questions related to memory, identity, institutional violence and the world of labour.