Abstract

MAZZUCHINI, Santiago. Mártires, héroes y víctimas: estética y política en las imágenes de Santiago Maldonado. Av. Cesor [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.25, pp.17-18. ISSN 1514-3899.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35305/ac.v18i25.1537.

This article proposes a journey and a theoretical-political reflection on the iconography built around Santiago Maldonado, with the aim of investigating the ways in which the figure of the heroic martyr and the disappeared survive and coexist in different images of protest. Various political art and photojournalism collectives made a wide variety of visual interventions to claim for the appearance and subsequent clarification of Maldonado's death, associating said figure with a series of victims murdered or disappeared by the State and its security forces. This attempt to link the case with a previous series gives account of a politicization strategy that transforms it into a public problem, causing the victim to no longer be anonymous (Gayol and Kessler, 2018). The visual strategies aimed at politicizing and trying to place the case on the media agenda left new images as a balance which allows us to rethink the ways in which the victim's body becomes an active agent of protest. On the other hand, visual actions are part of an extensive political iconography linked to disappearance and death, where faces and silhouettes are traditional figures of our aesthetic-political imagination.

Keywords : Political iconography; Image acts; Memory; Aesthetic.

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