the cenotaph

Socially the barrier between life and death was blur in the way that grow the presence and influence of the deaths in our society; is the case of the cenotaph, popular know it in chile like “animitas, and belong to an a conmemorative building.with citizen character.

The cenotaph evidence the displacement  of the death space inside the city, like cementaries, to the streets. The “animitas” in our society are a gesture who mixed up memory, information with reality.  Emphasize the tale of a story and a remnant of this event, in just this place. Its easier for the society rememberto this way, in part, for awaken in the viewer .

The “animitas” are  an iconography, because  they have a power to tell us quickly stories, when we are in front of the “”animnitas” we know her meaning and whats happen in this place, a “bad death”. All those information  carry us to our own religiosity, this make it fell empathy with the suject commemorate,  this make it an a mediator with God.