Leonora Vicuña: Quiet Resistance
In her book “Carrusel de Melancolías”, Chilean photographer Leonora Vicuña offers a personal view of life at the edges of society between the late 1970s and early 1980s, years marked by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Leonora Vicuña, who first made her mark as a poet, brings that same sensibility to her visual work. In a city gripped by control, self-censorship, disappearances and torture, she captures a hushed stillness in the backstreets, where time seems suspended.
The artist painted on the surface of the photographs, an imaginative gesture that feels like an escape from reality. While a faded palette takes over most scenes, a movie poster in one of the frames bursts with vibrant colors, seeming more alive than the street around it.
“Carrusel de Melancolías” is published by Editorial RM and available for 45 Euro.
