HOUSTON, TX.- In her highly evocative and personal first monograph, Historia, memoria y silencios (Schilt Publishing, February 2012), Argentinian artist Lorena Guillén Vaschetti ponders what the family photograph reveals about our past, and most importantly, what is hidden beyond the frame. In 2009, Vaschetti’s mother threw away all the family slides to protect her daughter from the family history. Vaschetti was able to recover only one box from the many that her mother had discarded. She re-photographed the contents from her perspective, choosing to leave the slides that were wrapped in packages unopened. A collection of these beautiful, and often haunting images in which Vaschetti re-writes her own past, is published here for the first time in this intimate and exquisitely designed volume. The book begins with a carefully chosen sequence of photographs of the loose slides Vaschetti found in the box. The artist