Rodrigo Gomez Rovira — 1973 CHILE 2023
Le Cyclo
5 Rue du 14 Juillet, 34200 Sète
Free entrance
Exhibition from May 18 to June 11, 2023
Opening on Sunday, May 21 at 11:30 am
« My first childhood memories go back to the time of the military coup in Chile.
I was a little over 5 years old. We lived in Santiago in a house whose layout I remember perfectly.
When the military coup took place, my father was in France on an artistic tour with the group Quilapayun. He worked for a record company that recorded artists who supported Allende’s government, DICAP, Discos del Cantar Popular.
I remember the chimney where my mother used to burn books at night. I remember when a man knocked on the door at sunset, he was on the street at curfew time. My mother opened the door, handed him a blanket and a plate of food, he spent the night in the hallway.
I remember the air travel. »
– Rodrigo Gomez Rovira
« And then France… The reunion with my father. The apartment in the Fossés Jean housing estate in the city of Colombes.
In 1990, when democracy was restored, my family returned to live in Chile.
I stayed in France until 1996 and finally boarded a cargo ship to Valparaíso.
It was strange to be Chilean without knowing Chile. »
« Fifty years have passed since those first memories.
These photographs are not an account of fifty years of history. Rather, they are sensations of the ellipsis of time made of dreams and realities. »
Valparaíso 2023, Rodrigo Gómez Rovira.
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