The image of Mary, the sacred and Memory.

Carmen Guarini

Team
Lucas Turturro
Lucía Levis

Resumen:

Every December 8th since 2007, in the Church of the Holy Cross, a small statue of a young pregnant peasant woman representing the Virgin Mary presides over a ceremony that allows us to reflect on the image as a device or tool from which to think of new relationships and new ways of staging memory processes.
From the act of placing the white handkerchief on the head of this little Maria, which is carried out every year by a Mother or Grandmother of Plaza de Mayo, she is reconfigured in a role that alludes to the struggle of these women for the values ​​of Truth and Justice upheld in the more than four decades of existence of human rights organizations in our country.
From an anthropological perspective, it is worth asking about the effectiveness of images and their role always in relation to the practices in which they are inserted.