Portraits of experiences: ways of narrating life in Las fotosand "¡Que tengan buen viaje!" by Inés Ulanovsky

Abstract

I analyze Inés Ulanovsky's latest book, Las fotos(2020) in connection with her chronicle "¡Que tengan buen viaje!", published in the Argentinean cultural magazine Anfibiain 2018. The main hypothesis starts from rethinking the modes of artistic-cultural production that this daughter of exiles of a second generation has developed after the return to Argentina, when democracy began in 1983. I call “portraits of experience” to the view from the conjunction between the word and the image, in the midst of works with memory (Jelin 2012), which have allowed to make a scriptural form more complex to give rise to new archiving techniques (Didi-Huberman 2017). I emphasize a writing that takes up the past experiences lived in the exile. A documentation work is demonstrated with historical, family, and collective evidence on the advance of State terrorism (in some stories) towards the intimate.

Keywords

• experience
• second generation
• pictures
• ulanovsky
• unarchive