Materiales Fuertes 1986 [verified] Jun 2026

Maciel, who had lived in exile in Barcelona from 1977 to 1984 before returning to Buenos Aires, created Materiales Fuertes as a response to the twin pressures of forced amnesia (Spanish “transitional pact of silence”) and the Argentine Nunca Más report’s raw data of disappeared persons. The work refuses the bright, hedonistic palette of early La Movida (Alaska, Ouka Leele) and instead resurrects a brutalism of conscience.

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