Sal-si-puedes (Exit if you can)
Sal-si-puedes (Exit if you can)
”Between October and November of 1983, the installation Sal-si-puedes (Exit if you can) by artist Nelbia Romero was shown at the Galería del Notariado in Montevideo.” The installation was a combined series of “social, political, and aesthetic plots” that portrayed “the time of the coup d’état on June 27, 1973, and throughout the years of the Uruguayan civil-military dictatorship from then until 1985. The name Sal-si-puedes does the work of literalizing the idea of entrapment and confinement that resulted in the massacre that, in turn, consolidated the extermination of indigenous people in Uruguay. Romero's installation consisted of a series of expressions in several different media” which included a musical score, photographs of a dance performance, and a small folder of quotes from historical documents.