With an altarpiece of La Moneda bombardada, made of cardboard, wood, plaster, glue, bitumen, wire and different enamels and paints by the sculptor and visual artist Julieta Cruz Miralles, who lives in the Los Lagos Region, the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) in Ñuble began the regional itinerary of the exhibition “La Moneda from the South”, with the first place on the tour being the Hall of the Central Building of the Chillán Campus of the University of Concepción.
The Julieta Cruz exhibition at the House of Studies is part of the Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Coup d’état of September 11, 1973. This caused admiration in the different sectors that make up the university community.
The General Director of the Chillán Campus, Dr. Pedro Rojas García, emphasized that from the educational role of the University, the history that was lived from the different points of view on this event must be transmitted to the new generations.
“This exhibition by the artist Julieta Cruz Miralles depicts and transports us to the time when the bombing of La Moneda took place, which went around the world, producing an institutional breakdown in our country with the consequences that we know of. The University of Concepción, within the development of the guidelines that it has given for the Commemoration of the 50 years of the Coup d’état, is to remember, to maintain the Memory so as not to make mistakes of the past again, to take care of our Democracy and, above all, unrestricted respect for the Human Rights”, emphasized the General Director of the Chillán Campus, Dr. Pedro Rojas García.
Likewise, the regional head of the INDH in Ñuble, Isabel Amor Alfaro, added that “this activity serves to reflect on what it means that the building where the Executive Power is held was bombed and burned on September 11, 1973, until it was practically in the bones, having consequences for democracy. It is important that we also have a capacity for reflection at the university level. In this place, those who will be the promoters of the social, cultural and political life of the Ñuble Region are formed”, affirmed the regional head of the INDH.
Much of the work you do Julieta Cruz Miralles is to rescue the patrimony with the elaboration of altarpieces, recreating constructions of the past.
“The show was really wonderful. I remembered when I went to Santiago as a 6-year-old girl, and walking the streets I saw how La Moneda was during that period. My parents explained to me what happened at that moment, and now seeing this model was going back to the past when I saw it personally. This work by the artist is precious,” said an emotional María Soledad Cofré Saldías, secretary of the Continuing Education Department of the Chillán Campus of the University of Concepción.
For her part, Daniela Fuentealba, an Agronomy student, thanked the House of Studies for carrying out this type of activity.
“It is a job that is very well accomplished. The model has many details, it is very wonderful and this type of instance at the University is gratifying”, he added.
From the National Institute of Human Rights in Ñuble, the rest of the destinations that the exhibition “La Moneda from the South” will visit during the last week of August will be announced.
