Memoria Entretejida / Woven Memory

We’re Not All Here / No Estamos Todes. Friday, September 26, 2025 6:00 - 8:30 PM Chicago Justice Gallery @socialjustice_uic . “The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.” Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics. . “We’re Not All Here / No Estamos Todes” is a continuation of the work I have been doing with @woven_memory . This exhibition documents different circumstances of disappearance within distant geographies. From the missing and murdered Black and Indigenous women and girls in Chicago, to the Mapuche land defenders currently missing in Chile, those murdered by the Israeli occupation in Palestine, and the ongoing abductions of immigrants across the United States. The exhibition not only hopes to create links of solidarity, but more so point towards a common oppressor. . Curated by @lolaogbara

@woven_memory ’s exhibition at @vivomediaarts featuring the audiovisual piece Copper Bodies by @whichnancy and yours truly from last September (another late gram). Thank you so much to the team at VIVO for making this installation so easy even as I was 6 months pregnant, you all are amazing ❤️ y muchas gracias a @ale_gomez_d y @amparo_errada por compartir sus historias y aprendizajes. . All images by Rachel Topham Photography @racheltophamphotography

Artist Panel with Lorelei Williams, Laith, Rodrigo Suarez Madariaga, Alejandra Gómez and Soledad Muñoz You can still grab your WM Publications/Catalog before Oct 4th! Make sure to check out the @woven_memory exhibit at @vivomediaarts @sol_tela @amparo_errada @ale_gomez_d @agrupacion_familiares_tocopilla THANK to our PARTNERS: VIVO Media Arts Centre @vivomediaarts Moniker Press @monikerpress CHAPEL SOUND Art Foundation @chapelsound and FUNDERS: Canada Council for the Arts Toronto Arts Council The BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

🗺️ What is the MAP OF TRAJECTORIES OF FORCED DISAPPEARANCES? 📍 You can see this interactive piece in Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida exhibition by Soledad Fatima Muñoz @sol_tela @vivomediaarts , running until October 4. Visit the exhibition Tue-Fri from 12-6pm! 📍 You can also explore the map online here: mapa.wovenmemory.net 📍 This map developed within the framework of the project, currently contains the data of the 98 protagonists of Londres 38, a clandestine torture and extermination center in Santiago Centro. 📍 This info was collected in collaboration with the archives department of Londres 38, people from the community and ex-political prisoners in workshops held in November 2023. ( web: Londres38.cl ) 📍 The map is designed as a tool that seeks to visualize the trajectories of forced disappearance, and also to identify patterns that due to the number of cases located in different geographies have been difficult to materialize and compare. 📍 Original map research and design by Maria Adasme, Rodrigo Suarez and Soledad Muñoz. Software Developer: Matthew Asaminew THANK to our PARTNERS: VIVO Media Arts Centre @vivomediaarts Moniker Press @monikerpress CHAPEL SOUND Art Foundation @chapelsound and FUNDERS: Canada Council for the Arts Toronto Arts Council The BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

🌟 Woven Memory: Copper Bodies 🌟 is a three-channel audiovisual installation by Soledad Fatima Muñoz in collaboration with media artist Nancy Lee 李南屏. @sol_tela @whichnancy Don't miss the Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida exhibition by Soledad Fatima Muñoz at @vivomediaarts , running until October 4. Visit the exhibition Tue-Fri from 12-6pm! Creators: Soledad Fatima Muñoz + Nancy Lee Editing and Coloring: Nancy Lee Sound Design: Soledad Fatima Muñoz Original Score: Chandra Melting Tallow Sound Mixing: Aleksandar Zecevic Direct Sound: Johan Lopez Jeraldo, Rowan Lynch, Rodrigo Suarez Madariaga. Cinematography: Nancy Lee Camera Operators: Nancy Lee, Johan Lopez Jeraldo, Esteban Cabezas Silva, Diego Cabezas Silva. Co-presented with @vivomediaarts VIVO Media Arts Centre photos: @sheng.yvr THANK to our PARTNERS: VIVO Media Arts Centre @vivomediaarts Moniker Press @monikerpress CHAPEL SOUND Art Foundation @chapelsound and FUNDERS: Canada Council for the Arts Toronto Arts Council The BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

TONIGHT at 6:00pm! Don’t miss the opening reception, panel talk and publication launch. 🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Sept 17 – Oct 4 📍 VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo St) Soledad Fátima Muñoz’s incredible exhibition and powerful installation now open at VIVO Media Arts @vivomediaarts ! Co-presented with CURRENT Symposium @current_symposium . Partners: CHAPEL SOUND Art Foundation @chapelsound and Moniker Press @monikerpress . Funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, The B.C. Fairs, Festivals and Events fund. . . #WovenMemory #VIVOMediaArts #ArtExhibition #CommunityEvent #SoledadFátimaMuñoz

INTRODUCING: Alejandra Gómez Díaz Alejandra will be one of the speakers September 20th at 6 PM at VIVO Media Arts @vivomediaarts She is the daughter of Luis Alberto Gómez Cerda, arrested and disappeared on September 13th of 1973 in Tocopilla. She is the president of the Agrupación de Familiares de Víctimas de Tocopilla. Come join us on September 20th at 6 PM at VIVO Media Arts Centre; it is going to be an amazing evening with: Opening Reception, Panel Talk, and Publication Launch VIVO Media Arts Centre @ale_gomez_d @agrupacion_familiares_tocopilla

REGISTRO ANTOFAGASTA, LA PROVIDENCIA @laprovidenciaantofagasta During the civil-military dictatorship the regime implemented the practice of forced disappearance as a repressive method that sought to disarticulate any sort of political organizing. Along with the detention and disappearance of people, they tried to disappear the places where the repression took place by means of concealment, destruction and policies of impunity sustained to this day by post-dictatorship “democratic” governments. In 2004, the Chilean National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture recognized 1,132 sites used by state agents and civilians to perpetrate human rights violations during the dictatorship. These sites include, but are not limited to, mass graves, clandestine torture and extermination centers, police and military bases, prisons, stadiums and concentration camps. Currently communities related to the sites and various social organizations are recovering, and repurposing these infrastructures as “sites of memory”, which are recognized and protected by the Council of National Monuments. WOVEN MEMORY takes place in these sites and has been hosted by the communities of La Veleidosa Mine in Tocopilla (2022), the former detention and torture center Sitio de Memoria La Providencia in Antofagasta (2022), clandestine torture and extermination center Londres 38 in Santiago (2023), and the Centro Cultural Museo y Memoria in Neltume (2024). Photo: @caro_analoga Thank you to Canada Council of the Arts, Province of British Columbia.

Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida Soledad Fátima Muñoz We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibition co-presented by VIVO Media Arts and CURRENT Symposium! Exhibition Dates:
September 17 - October 4, 2024
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12-6 pm
Location: @ VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo St.) Artist Talk:
September 12, 2024 | 7 pm
Featuring Soledad Fátima Muñoz and Nancy Lee 
Location: @ ECUAD (520 E 1st Ave) ASL interpretation will be provided at this event. Opening Reception, Catalog Launch, and Panel:
September 20, 2024 | 6 pm
Join us for a special evening with Soledad Fátima Muñoz, Rodrigo Suárez Madariaga @laprovidenciaantofagasta , Alejandra Gómez Díaz, Lorelei Williams, and Butterflies in Spirit @butterfliesinspirit 
Location: @ VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo St.) ASL interpretation will be provided at this event. Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida by Soledad Fátima Muñoz is a powerful series of site-specific installations that honor the lives of those who disappeared during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. This exhibition features a new three-channel audiovisual installation created in collaboration with Nancy Lee 李南屏 and includes footage from significant historical sites in Chile. The catalog, launching on September 20th, is a live archive featuring stories, images, and voices from the project, designed by Paz Pereira Vega + Josefina Vera Toro. Free entry – no registration needed! Details through the link in the bio. Partners:
@vivomediaarts | @current_symposium | @chapelsound We look forward to seeing you! #WovenMemory #Exhibition #Art #VIVOMediaArts #CURRENTSymposium Poster by Paz Pereira

Les invitamos a la inauguración de tercera muestra de la instalación textil "Memoria Entretejida. Recuerdos permanentes", de la artista chileno canadiense Soledad Fátima Muñoz, el día jueves 23 de noviembre en el sitio de memoria Londres 38, espacio de memorias.

INAUGURACIÓN / 23 DE NOVIEMBRE / 18:00h / LONDRES 38 Les invitamos a la inauguración de tercera muestra de la instalación textil "Memoria Entretejida. Recuerdos permanentes", de la artista chileno canadiense Soledad Fátima Muñoz, el día jueves 23 de noviembre en el sitio de memoria Londres 38, espacio de memorias. Londres 38, espacio de memorias es un ex centro clandestino de detención política, torturas y exterminio que funcionó a cargo de la Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) entre 1973 y 1974. La casona, ubicada en la calle Londres, en el centro de Santiago, fue construida en 1925. Tuvo un uso residencial hasta 1970, cuando fue comprada y utilizada como sede del Partido Socialista hasta 1973. Tras su uso represivo –y como estrategia de ocultamiento– en 1978 la casa fue traspasada al Instituto O’higginiano (organización de estudios militares) y su numeración cambiada a Londres 40. Desde esa época, el espacio ha sido insistentemente señalizado como lugar de prisión, tortura y desaparición por familiares de personas ejecutadas y desaparecidas, y por sobrevivientes del centro de detención. Desde 2010 a la fecha se encuentra a cargo de la Corporación Londres 38, quienes realizan visitas dialogadas y talleres de memoria, además de vínculos con territorios y diversas organizaciones. Les esperamos!

“CARAVANA DE LA MUERTE” At La Providencia. The piece "Caravan of Death" depicts the victims of the army convoy led by General Arellano Stark, whose objective was to execute social activists in the early days of the dictatorship. On October 16, 1973, it began its journey through the north of Chile in the cities of La Serena, Copiapó, Antofagasta, Calama and Iquique. The result of this operation was 71 people executed and disappeared in the north; while in the south of the country 26 people were murdered and disappeared. La Providencia building is a former convent of nuns built in the early 1900s, which was used as secret barracks for political detention and torture between 1973 and 1989, mainly by the Intelligence Service of Carabineros of Chile, in collaboration with the secret police of the regime in their respective periods. The work of the Agrupación Providencia @agrupacionprovidencia has led to the declaration of the space as a Historic Monument and the current process of transfer of the site to this group. La pieza “Caravana de la Muerte” representa a las víctimas de la comitiva del ejército a cargo del General Arellano Stark que tuvo como objetivo ejecutar a activistas sociales en los primeros días de la dictadura. El 16 de octubre de 1973 esta comitiva inició su paso por el norte de Chile, recorriendo las ciudades de La Serena, Copiapó, Antofagasta, Calama e Iquique. El resultado de esta operación fue 71 personas ejecutadas políticas y detenidas desaparecidas en el norte; en el sur del país fueron asesinadas y desaparecidas 26 personas. El edificio de la Providencia es un ex convento de religiosas construido a comienzos del 1900, y fue utilizado como cuartel secreto de detención política y tortura entre 1973 y 1989, principalmente por el Servicio de Inteligencia de Carabineros de Chile, en colaboración con la policía secreta del régimen en sus respectivos periodos. El trabajo de la Agrupación La Providencia derivó en la declaración del espacio como Monumento Histórico y actual proceso de traspaso del sitio a la agrupación. 📷 @caro_analoga . Made possible with the support of @canada.council