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So we are coming from a different context here. [[strikethrough]] And this piece, Evita, I did as my work develops in projects. When I first started doing video [[/strikethrough]], I did my first video installation in a museum in 1970. [[strikethrough]] We are talking about Latin America. And [[/strikethrough]] Since I was born in Argentina, I was always interested in viewing my native country from the point of view of the Diaspora, the Argentinean Diaspora, from the artists, intellectuals, and the [[strikethrough]] millions [[/strikethrough]] thousands of Argentineans who left Argentina and are living all over the world. We see our country from a different angle, from a different point of view. And this Evita is from the period that I was dealing with the American popular culture, the myth of the popular culture, and also is self-referential of the use of television and how the television creates the myth, and also develops what I call this mirror reality. [[strikethrough]] that is more mirror than real. [[/strikethrough]] This piece was done in 1984, which was the time when Evita, the musical, was a big hit on Broadway. And I really got very upset about this Evita, with Antonio Banderas as Che. As we all know, Che never met Evita; they never knew each other. But anyway, for production's sake, they put it together, and it was a big hit. [[strikethrough]] So everybody knows, [[/strikethrough]] When you say Argentina, everyone knows about Evita and about Che Guevara.

And also at the time it was the [[strikethrough]] famous [[/strikethrough]] Malvinas-Falkland War. With the Argentineans taking over and it was this whole international - I would say almost an international  spectacle - that was carried on television on a daily news broadcast, that the majority of people didn't even know what was this big fuss about this little island.

[[strikethrough]] But anyway, [[/strikethrough]] This videotape was part of an installation that consisted of paintings, that were abstract, but done in a very casual, naive, astute type of way, not well-defined or finished. And the piece that accompanied that