In Nicolás Guagnini’s work included in Los Desaparecidos/The Disappeared exhibition, which is titled 30,000 (the number of the disappeared in Argentina), he uses the picture of his father that his grandmother carried in the demonstrations.

Guagnini’s father was a journalist who covered national and international politics, and was disappeared on December 12, 1977. As the viewer moves around the sculpture, the image of Guagnini’s father’s face appears and disappears. In this lecture, Guagnini will discuss his artistic practice, and his experiences growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.