THE SHAPING OF TRANSMEDIAL MEMORY IN THE WORK OF A VISUAL ARTIST WHO WRITES

Abstract

This work seeks to account for the existence of a transmedial literature in the midst of hybrid languages that a visual artist who writes, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, shapes. The selected works: Mudanza (2013), Palabras migrantes (2019), Conjunto vacío (2017) show an exploration with language that includes memorial marks created and housed in the texts by a daughter (visual artist who writes) who is unfailingly constituted as an entrepreneur of memory (Jelin's concept). The corpus of works enables spaces of inscription where the meanings of the past are observed. In this case, a past linked to a traumatic Latin American reality such as the exile of Argentineans to Mexico -in Conjunto Vacío-, during the last Argentinean military dictatorship; the implications of the migration of young Latin Americans to the United States -in Palabras migrantes- and the decision of writers who chose to become visual artists in order to express an individual memory in confluence with social memory -in Mudanza. From these perspectives, the works are presented as transmedia documents that are part of the broad discussion on memory politics in Latin America.