¿Por qué Matura?

In this work we try to trace the elusive biography of Carlos Alberto “Matura” Nieva. To do so we interweave our experiences with the stories, gossip, rumors and photographic images that have shaped various meanings about his life. “Fat,” “black,” “faggot,” “Peronist.” Matura, an elusive specter for an essentializing classification that reassuringly sets out what he was in Catamarca in the 1980s. Matura, that evocative figure of an era that is missed or despised. Matura, a narrative fold in which other memorial plots emerge, as they can, other abject presences that are excluded from the dominant historiographical order, but that form part of a network of interactions that shaped the daily life of that era.