XXII History of the Human Face (Trueque): Airmail Painting No.123

Eugenio Dittborn began producing airmail paintings — collaged works that he folded and mailed through the postal system — in 1983 amid the “cultural blackout” brought about by Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile. The works simultaneously resisted censorship by circumventing regular forms of art production and circulation, and practiced a form of self-exile at […]