Contributions by Natalia Brizuela
Natalia Brizuela studied literature and fine art at Princeton University and received her doctorate in Latin American literature and culture from New York University. She is a researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Natalia is the author of Fotografia e imperio. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (2012) and Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (2014), and coeditor of Y todo el resto es literatura. Ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini (2008). She has curated various exhibitions, including "NO SÉ. El templo del Sol," an exhibition about the Brazilian artist Nuno Ramos held in the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires.
Passages: My Art as an Everything
Natalia Brizuela on Nuno Ramos
translated by Andrea Rosenberg
“No sé.” “I don’t know.” That’s the response Tintin and Captain Haddock get from the inhabitants of the Andean country—vaguely reminiscent of Peru—where they’ve traveled in search of their friend, Professor Calculus, who has been kidnapped and taken there by the last descendants of the Incas. Whenever Tintin and Haddock encounter someone—all of them with indigenous features—and ask if they’ve seen their friend, the natives respond, “I don’t know.” That “I don’t know” is the resistance of the colonial subject. That negation is the power of the powerless: “You can arrest me, you can interrogate me, you can torture me, you can exterminate my people, but you can’t make me talk.” Today the phrase arrives on the shores of the Río de la Plata in the form of an embodied echo: … Read More »
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