ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the representation of violence in the Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia, y la Inclusión Social (The Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion, or LUM) exhibit in Peru. From the perspective of memory and human rights, it begins by recognizing the human dimension of the experiences, losses, pain, and memories that lacerate and give meaning to the lives of all those affected by the violence within the context of their long struggles for rights and citizenship. These memories reintroduce the past in all of its density, rendering visible a broader historical agenda of exclusion, inequality, and injustice, the persistence of which reminds us of the Republic’s debt to the most vulnerable Andean and Amazonian populations. Even when the exhibit seeks to reflect the extreme violence of the 1980s, the power it projects is situated in the present, in memory understood as the conscience of time, as a fulcrum between past and present.
