Following the coup d'état on March 24, 1976, Argentina's last civic-military dictatorship systematically implemented the persecution, kidnapping, torture, murder, and forced disappearance of individuals for ideological and political reasons. Two years later, the FIFA World Cup was held in the country. This popular event was presented as the ideal propaganda tool, both domestically and internationally, and was primarily used as an optical illusion to conceal the genocide of State Terrorism. So much so that the tournament final took place just a few meters away from the ESMA clandestine detention, torture, and extermination center.

This World Cup was characterized by a specific gesture: the throwing of confetti into the air, which was the way to celebrate the national team's victories in the competition.

"Desilusiones ópticas" is an interactive work that highlights the tensions between concealment and visibility, specifically referencing that macabre '78 World Cup and appropriating the celebratory gestures of that event, but literally inverting their meaning. Thus, instead of the backdrop upon which the dictators projected an image of civility, order, and triumph, the "confetti" function as potential mini-screens on which the faces of the thousands of disappeared are revealed.

Ten years after the start of the trials for crimes against humanity in Rosario, this installation denounces official perversion and invites us to resist oblivion.