El Ojo que Llora: Biopolitics, Memory Knots, and Public Art in Peru Today
The article analyzes debates surrounding the construction and materialization of collective memory in Peru in relation to the internal war in which Sendero Luminoso was confronted by state forces, leaving an extremely high death toll in the Andean region. El Ojo que Llora, a public monument erected in commemoration of those who fell in those confrontations, is studied in its aesthetic, ethical, and ideological aspects through the debates its composition provoked, as well as being examined as an example of the representational problems posed by the materialization of a recent and controversial political conflict — both in its strategies and its interpretation.