Victoria siempre
Margarita Paksa Argentine
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Victoria siempre (Victory Forever) belongs to Margarita Paksa’s series of works on paper based on cartographies, titled Diagramas de batallas (Battle Diagrams). Made between 1970–76, they consist of enlarged words in Spanish such as Victoria, La comida, Libertad, Violencia…overlapping fragments of local maps. The words make reference to the exceptionality of the historical moment of dictatorship in Argentina in the early 1970s, while the maps signal key locations in Buenos Aires and Rosario where popular reactions against the repressive forces of the government were more active and intense. Here Paksa uses the spherical mark of the objective lens of a riflescope to amplify and distort the word Victoria (Victory). This typographic device is reminiscent of agitprop, contextualizing the urgency of her work within the sociopolitical situation in Argentina.
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