El Ojo que Llora: Biopolitics, Memory Knots, and Public Art in Peru Today
This article analyzes the 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 such confrontations, is studied in its aesthetic, ethical, and ideological dimensions, through the debates its composition provoked, as well as an example of the representational challenges posed by the materialization of a politically charged, recent, and contested conflict in terms of both its strategies and its interpretation.