9 . Exhibition “ Sacred Objects , Precious Words ” at the Centre for Memory , Peace , and Reconciliation , Bogotá-Colombia . ( 2022 ). Archive : Juliana Sandoval , Exhibition Curator
So , how do we tell what has happened to us ?
Words and objects bring us back to the idea that remembering is an attempt to make sense of experiences that are difficult to fully narrate . However , lived life and narrated life are not the same ( Ricoeur , 2006 ). The stories we tell do not always capture the entirety of lived experience , yet they are essential in trying to understand and humanise our experiences . Objects , together with words , face the challenge of dealing with the inassimilable . Their function is not merely to restore the original context but to create a new environment , woven with a connection more metaphorical than contiguous with the fabric of violence . Sometimes , these objects make visible microhistories , in Ginzburg ’ s sense ( 1994 ), singling out details from subaltern subjects to achieve surprising representations of what has traditionally been rendered invisible in historical accounts , “ the ruins of the social ”. At other times , they are configured as metaphors that replace the focus on “ the real ” with an aesthetic value that reworks the grand narratives of the past or empowers those narratives to formalise a historical account .
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