Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Pedro Mardones Lemebel, Francisco Casas Silva
Las Dos Fridas (The Two Fridas)
1989
Inkjet print, photograph by Pedro Marinello Kairath
Not on view
In 1987, Lemebel and Silva began working together under the name Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis. On October 12, 1989, they staged a performance at the headquarters of the Chilean Commission on Human Rights, which was investigating disappearances under the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90). During the intervention, the pair danced the cueca, a folkloric dance that Pinochet had declared the national dance of Chile, over a map of South America covered with broken Coca-Cola bottles. The bottles, a popular export, reference the US’s support of the Pinochet government, while the map connects the historical violence of the continent’s conquest with its contemporary military regimes.
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