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| Haboba Diego Born in 1979 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in Buenos Aires. Painting, history and memory Haboba works on memory, on individual memory in conjunction with the coordinates of a greater historical context: that of Argentina in the twentieth century. He functions as a revealing agent for coded messages, hidden within the family pictures that constitute part of his "iconographic file" -evidence of a past, the narration of which is discontinued and therefore needs to be revised and told in retrospect. The story then becomes a vehicle to put the images in their right sequence. However, Haboba chooses to shift to a rather provocative area. He violates the narration of petty, everyday family histories by inverting their line and applying anachronisms that –oddly enough– turn him away from the power to review the past. Thus, such an inversion of line subverts the senses, leaving them exposed to different perspectives, while at the same time they experience reality: the individual family history, as well as the greater political history of Argentina in the second half of the twentieth century. Anachronisms function as an alert that triggers the possibility of linking together these individual histories, and all these linked histories with a past that has not finished yet its digesting process. The line of the images looks to a return story. It is rather an everyday scene suspended in time, featuring characters that seem to be wrapped in the melancholic aura of imagination: being able to daydream and contribute to the remembrance of a complex past. A dual quality makes possible the ownership and function of such a re-imaging exercise of memory, through which we can recognize and feel that it constitutes part of a common past, disrupted by a symbolic gesture that makes images shift from fragments of a family history to references to a collective memory. Yet, its function does not end here, but it rather invents episodes that add up and edge in the memory, by revealing all those unfulfilled dreams and expectations being evident even in the political imagination of many people. Thus, it is a fictional family story regressing between national transformation and re-designation. Diana B. Wechsler Buenos Aires, 2009  Download CV |  La cautiva/The Captive, 2005-2006 Sus asesinos/His Assassins, 2008 From Cesárea series, 2005 Facundo motorizado, 2009 Niña/Little Girl, 2009 |
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