Desapariciones de los cuerpos, borramientos de la imagen: archivo, violencia y memoria en la obra de Bruno Varela sobre el Caso Iguala (2015-2016)

Abstract

This article inquiries into the relationships between the archive, the state violence and the images as metaphors of the mutilated, murdered and disappeared body in the works of Bruno Varela, Volatilidad (2015), Fauna nociva (2015) y Materia oscura (2016). In order to achieve the latter, the ways in which the official narrative, issued by the State, is enunciated from the indeterminacy and erasure of the bodies and of the images and documents that serve as expert evidence and testimonies of the violent exercise are put into question from a Visual Studies approach.