September 1973, when Chile of Salvador Allende was assassinated, when Pablo Neruda died... The poet's house was pillaged, his garden violated, and the crime against the future of the Popular Unity was perpetrated against the flowers, against the fruits. But "life resides in every scar," Neruda had said.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, in his studio, a painter took up the theater of his painting to uncover other scars, the memory of an entire people in the volcanic words of the poet. For Ladislas Kijno, it was not about illustrating Neruda, but making visible the echo of his song, exploring the unknown dimension of his images. Thus, these "Stelae" were erected for Neruda.
