© 2012 Marcelo Brodsky
Currently not on view
La camiseta (The Undershirt),
1979, printed 2012
Marcelo Brodsky, born 1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina; active Buenos Aires
2013-55
When a coup d’état in 1976 launched nine years of military dictatorship in Argentina, twenty-two-year-old Brodsky fled into exile in Barcelona, Spain, fearing persecution from the regime; his brother, Fernando, was among the many students who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the government. Here, Victor Basterra, a survivor of a clandestine detention camp, holds a fading photograph of Fernando that he smuggled out of the camp. With this work, the artist elegizes his lost brother and underscores the ways in which photography can serve as a conduit to connect with loved ones who have died.
More About This Object
Information
Title
La camiseta (The Undershirt)
Dates
1979, printed 2012
Maker
Medium
Chromogenic print from a digital file
Dimensions
image: 59.7 x 53.7 cm. (23 1/2 x 21 1/8 in.)
sheet: 61.9 x 55.6 cm. (24 3/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2013-55
Place Made
South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Culture
Techniques
Subject
The artist (2013, purchased by Princeton University Art Museum).
