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Hi. I'm Ursula Davila-Villa. I'm the associate curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton
Museum of Art. Today, I'll be talking about Ana Gallardo's video Mi Padre, My Father.
In this video, Ana documents an action, she asked her father to read a newspaper clipping
she found among his things. Her father was not aware of the newspaper clipping, nor of
the story that was written by a journalist in 1957. This story described the lives of
a young couple coming from Spain in search of a new life in Buenos Aires. They have left
the old continent due to the civil war that Spain was facing at the time and wanted to
build a new life in Rosario, a city close to Buenos Aires. Her father began reading
this story in a very serious tone. Very suddenly, he became aware that the story was about himself
and his deceased wife, and he began crying, responding emotionally to the story, the past,
and the memory. It was a very personal moment that was documented through the camera. So
this moment is revealed to us, the audience, through this video, while at the same time,
is shared for the first time between father and daughter. In a way, she has documented
that love that existed, the yearning for the past, but also the way her life changed, that
moment that her parents left the old continent in search of a new life, although fearful
that it was full of hope and gave Ana a full new future.