Afectos, memorias y duelos queer en las instalaciones de los años noventa del artista correntino Juan Ramón Gutierrez

This article aims to analyze the notions of death, mourning and phantasmagoria present in political philosophy and gender studies in the light of the artistic production of the artist Juan Ramón Gutierrez from Corrientes, Argentina. In the territory of the artistic practices of northeastern Argentina, conceptualizations around death are present through a wide repertory of artistic works where acts of memory, remembrance and inheritance acquire fundamental relevance. These themes were approached by Juan Ramón Gutierrez with remarkable insistence from different materialities, supports and aesthetics choices, especially in the installations he developed in the nineties when, moved by the AIDS pandemic, he produced a series of altars and drawings that make the work of mourning a form of poetic justice. Two of his installations made in the 1990s in the United States will be analyzed, particularly his installations Altar Dedicado a Los Muertos de Sida (1994) and Cuartos Para los Muertos (1999) presented at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) in San Francisco.