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Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship
May, 2026 – November, 2026, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship brings together eighteen artists and collectives to reflect on the enduring legacy of Argentina’s last military dictatorship, fifty years after the 1976 coup d’état.
Through works spanning the 1970s to the present, the exhibition explores how images, bodies, absences and traces bear witness to State violence, censorship, exile, disappearance and collective trauma.
Approached through a photographic and curatorial lens, the exhibition considers art as a space where the visible and the invisible meet: where memory is preserved, violence is made perceptible, and histories of repression are reactivated in the present.
The works on view address both the brutality of dictatorship and the subtler forms of violence that persist today, including attacks on democratic institutions and the ongoing violence against women and LGBTQ+ communities.
By positioning artistic practice as an act of remembrance, resistance and testimony, Darkness Visible underscores the power of images to confront historical trauma, defend human rights and keep collective memory alive.
Courtesy of Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires.
