Desclasificados (Declassified) proposes a review of declassified US intelligence files on Latin American countries during the Cold War and a review of a series of documents revealing the existence of Secret Armies (Stay Behind) implemented by the CIA and NATO to prevent the advance of the left in post-war Europe, revealed under the name of Operation Gladio, during the 1990s in Italy.

The declassified CIA files about fourteen Latin American countries cover a period from 1948 to 1993. The documents are presented in a large installation that allows to appreciate their volume. Many of them are crossed out and censored and, because of these graphic marks, can no longer be considered merely as texts to be read but acquire the status of images to be observed. The installation plays in that diffuse space between text and image, history, lies, censorship and disinformation. On the other hand, from postwar Europe, a series of secret documents are presented that were leaked to the public in the mid-1990s, revealing the existence of secret armies that carried out low-intensity attacks with the aim of shocking the population and thus influencing the historical development of the continent.

In this series, Voluspa Jarpa asks: When and how can the course of the history of a collective be changed, how are these operations carried out, what happens when a leader is removed from his place of political representation and another illegitimately takes his place, in what directions is the collective history of Latin American and European societies manipulated?