The MAPI museum inaugurated on Saturday, May 18 at 12:00h the installation of the Uruguayan artist Manuela Aldabe Toribio “En ella estamos todas” (We are all in her) as part of the month of memory, in a work that used the soil of the grave of the first disappeared woman found in Uruguay and that preceded the “March of Memory” that took place on May 20.

Making art could have been linked to transplanting, to translating, to interpreting, to embodying, to ontological implantation, to bringing something new to reality: an artistic project as a laboratory where disciplines were interconnected to offer symbiosis and generate a hypothesis. A symbiogenesis of botany, art, anthropology, technology, communal work, and all that posed to deconstruct the episteme of the colonialist matrix.

The unjust deaths lurked in our imaginary and that is where the artist turned on a spotlight that pointed out the systematic violence. The repression of the military dictatorship (1973-1984) was plagued by persecution, torture, death and disappearance, which in the case of most women was aggravated by the violence of sexual torture.

The remains of the woman found in the 14th Infantry Battalion in Toledo on June 6, 2023, unlike the five missing detainees found previously, were found unclothed, on their backs, in tatters. Aldabe made visible the systemic violence against the bodies of women victims of state terrorism, art took up the case. Aldabe’s works integrated an obsession with memory, but did not abandon the idea of the future. The artist captured the energy of the objects and above all, the energy of the objects that were in contact with the missing woman she brought to this exhibition.

Thus he generated constellations of signs that imagined the future. If we think of Uruguay, this reconnection seemed utopian.