The dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 conducted an unprecedented level of state crime: the forced disappearance of thousands of people whose deaths were never officially recognised. Estimates put the number of people who disappeared at 30,000 – they are missing, without a grave, and their only presence is the extent to which we can evoke their memory. The installation ‘Siempreviva’ offered a space of remembrance to the disappeared in the heart of Berlin, a city with a history marked by state terror and murder. The siemprevivas, or everlasting owers, are owers that cannot wither. Neither dead nor alive, they maintain the same state of suspension between life and death in which the dictatorship wan- ted to con ne the disappeared. In contrast to historical contexts in which it is possible to speak of a post-, an afterlife of the painful events, disappearance haunts society in ways that challenge the ordered course of history and disjoint time. In silence, ...