Where the city is in pain Photo-narration
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In 2013, when I started my investigation in Tierra del Fuego, a fire broke out in the installations of the building that once functioned as the Cold Storage of the “Argentine Meat Producers Corporation” (CAP) in the city of Río Grande. At this opportunity, the places were enveloped in a generalized commotion. The spectacle was desolate: the thick, black smoke covered the entire neighborhood, and the bombers exerted great effort to put out the calls. A few years earlier, in 1999, the building had been declared a National Historical Monument, along with other buildings linked to colonization institutions. This declaration was established after the sale of the property, which then belonged to the Rural Association, a local businessman. Since then, to successive fires, the abandonment of dependencies of state heritage has been increasing, a (in) policy of memory actively and selectively promotes the oblivion. In the CAP, then, the forces of nature and human agency converged into a great ruin, a catastrophe that is not the catastrophe of history.
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