October 30, 2007 – November 5, 2007
Location: Perkins Gallery
Sponsor(s): Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Artist(s): Students
In the Fall Semester 2007 the Archive for Human Rights sponsored a celebration of Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. The Latin American tradition of Dia de Los Muertos is an exercise in memory and memorilization. Not only family photos but also favorite foods, toys, personal and family objects, and other items closely associated with the deceased are juxtaposed on an ofrenda or altar, offering a number of different avenues of memory (documentary, sensual, communal) through which the living and the dead, the past and the present, can reunite.
This exhibition was sponsored in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
