More than twenty years since it was published in 1986, Margins and Institutions: Art in Chile since 1973. The book's title can be interpreted in two ways in the act of its reissue. First, in the past tense, the title and refers to the micro-politics of space, in the years of military repression faced criticism practices blocks violence, censorship and resistance to such practices aimed at destabilizing from the edges the antidictatorial field. Second, in the present tense, the title indicates that journey that led pulsióncrítica of "margins" (attracted by the emerging and refractory) to canonized a reference today is perceived as "institutional" due to academic and museum legitimation the "advanced" in the national and international scene. This dual voltage dividing inhabits the title of the book in contingency (the cultural wasteland in which traces its first situational brand) and history (subsequent conversion into a citation he left behind the declarative loneliness). I would like this reissue of Margins and Institutions, after twenty years, will not erase all the insecurity and uncertainty that surrounded his criticism bet on a landscape-the dictatorship could only challenge from the stubborn conviction "despite everything ".