Transient memory Argentina archive began as a closed Facebook group where friends of the 1980s and 1990s can reconnect. It was successful and soon the digital space was filled with tales, letters and ashamed. After that, photographer Estalles suggested “expanding it beyond the tales,” says Nashter.
The big jump was the exhibition This left, this one was killed, this one died ((Esta SE FUE, A Esta La Mataron, Esta Murió), Which is characterized by intimate images of friends in prison, exile, or absent in another way. Soon after, the archive team started dreaming of a greater presence.
Today, Nastri works with archive managers, who are generally great witnesses on the history of society, as they archive and preserve documents. For them, going to work is resistance. In Argentina, 9,000 people (as of 2021) amended their national identity documents to reflect their sexual identity. People between the ages of 40 and 79 are only 17 percent of this number with those over 60 years old, only 4 percent.
The moving memory archive in Argentina maintains more than 100 documentaries with 25,000 elements dating back to 1930 to the early first decade of the twentieth century: photos, movies, audio recordings, messages, brochures, posters, press data, police files, magazine articles, identity documents, and personal notes. Their work is self -financing through projects, Book salesAnd Monthly contributions.
On the site, there are pictures of childhood, exile, activity, messages and postcards, carnival celebrations, private parties, birthdays, sexual work, daily life, shows, pictures, as well as those from people’s career. The archive of the documentary that Pia now lives, along with 40 other similar archives in Latin America.
At the end of June, during the winter of Argentina, Hernandez told me in a video call that future generations should know about the repression they have suffered. Her generation survived the persecution and harassment of the police during Dictatorship. Without this archive, Nastri believes that a decisive part of history will also be forgotten, but many moments of joy will be forgotten. “The thing that this community possesses is strong family bonds,” she explained. “They have a tragic but common history in a very happy way.”
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