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Memento Mori: Testament to Life (English/Spanish bilingual edition) An emotional documentary tribute to the more than 250,000 "disappeared" in Colombia, as presented in a fine-art, bi-lingual edition (English and Spanish). Memento Mori: Testament to Life is a poignant tribute to the victims of Colombia's armed conflict that has claimed more than 250,000 people during the last fifty years. The book is presented as four bodies of photographic work in a two-volume, bi-lingual edition: English and Spanish. The first volume includes hauntingly beautiful images of Diettes's photographic work on display at museums and at memorials in areas where the victims "disappeared," a moving statement by the artist herself, an essay by Mexican scholar Ileana Diéguez, and an extensive conversation with the artist by Anne Wilkes Tucker, former Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The second volume showcases the plates from three photographic series: Sudarios (Shrouds), photographs printed on linen of women who have witnessed atrocities committed against their loved ones, Río Abajo (Drifting Away), images of articles of clothing of "the disappeared," photographed in water and embedded in glass, and Relicarios (Reliquaries), three-dimensional works of polymer containing mementos and personal effects of the victims. At once majestic, accessible, and deeply moving, this book makes a significant contribution not only to documentary art, contemporary Latin American studies, and social anthropology but also to those wanting to understand, at a very basic level, the human cost of terrorism. As Anne Wilkes Tucker writes, Erika Diettes's unforgettable book speaks "of universal loss from violent death." And it is through her art that we learn how to grieve from such loss. PRAISE The 2017 Tim Hetherington Fellowship is awarded to Erika Diettes! "Some artists are by vocation gravediggers. Much of Erika Diettes's work can be regarded as the fabric of an extensive and intimate shroud with which to wrap, consecrate, bid farewell, and provide a final resting place for bodies not yet laid to rest... . Despite the dark background from which [the photographs] emerge, these images project a kind of radiance in that they transmit the agony of an era and accounts of life in that era." Read a review of Diettes's work, Relicarios, on ArtLink How Art on Catholic Campuses Compliments Students' Education |
| $60.00 U.S. No e-book has been authorized. Hardcover (two volumes) with slipcase 248 pages with 126 color and 20 duotone photographs by the author 8.25" x 11.5" (upright/portrait) ISBN: 978–1–938086–32–8 Published in March 2016 Distributed by Casemate/IPM (U.S. and Canada) Book Events & Exhibitions: March 14 - May 19, 2018 March 1 - April 11, 2017
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