GENERAL is an artist's book by Marisa Cornejo-Kasterine linked to her exhibition project «El Milagro chileno» (the chilean miracle). It serves as a a warning about the difficult reality of contemporary Chilean life (lack of basic human rights and social degradation), and demonstrates the daily struggle needed for survival in a free market economy, forced on the society since the mid seventies. GENERAL is a collection of documents from dismissal letters, medical and educational bills, denied requests, to marked passports and judicial charges, etc. all bearing witness to the cost of the Chilean Miracle, a policy that is still in place today. Apart from the documents the book also includes a series of portraits of those who were interviewed for this project and texts with personal stories, all of which come together to construct a local memory archive. GENERAL is also a reflection on being uprooted, focusing on such topics as: exoneration, prison, compulsory migration and exile; it is also an exercise in creating collective memory based mainly on life testimonies separate from any single institution. Ana María Saavedra and Luis Alarcón

"Dossier sans suite" is the first part of a work in progress by Marisa Cornejo-Kasterine. It invites us to reflect critically on asylum and refugee status, while introducing us to the human and legal situation of people experiencing this condition. The artist opens a dialogue between stories of yesterday and today, inviting the viewer to approach this reality in both temporal spaces.