Revista de Antropología Visual

This paper proposes a reflection on the Mario Toral’s work named Memoria Visual de una Nación (Visual Memory of a Nation), inaugurated in its first phase in 1996, and that is located on the subway station “Universidad de Chile”, in the city of Santiago. The objective is to approach the work as a text, that re-composes a statement of the Chilean identity from images of certain historical facts, geography and prominent figures (presidents and poets) that crosses the distance of the nation, from its origins up to the present, from the pre-Hispanic past, passing for the violence of the conquest, the constitution of the republican State, up to the maximum expression –in Chile- of the urban modernity that would represent the space in which it is inserted: the subway.