Getty Museum

Mariana Mercado, 21 Years Old, Student of System Analysis

Date

1997

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

Argentinian

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Object ID

c6fc9e79-b025-46fe-98c3-d3a0a685c8d2

Portrait of a woman seated at a desk with a computer. Her name, Mariana, is painted on the wall above her. This photograph is from a series of portraits of the sons and daughters of people who disappeared during the 1976 -1978 military dictatorship in Tucumán. The artist let the protagonists, who now were approximately the same age as their parents when they disappeared, decide the location and the objects presented in the portraits. The series shows the special connection of the sons and daughters with the photographs of their parents that have become relics of their memory.

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