Political parents, children artists. Too many examples so that it is only a coincidence. From Florencia Kirchner and Agustina Macri, The filmmake daughters of Cristina and Mauricio, until Tani Fernández, Alberto’s cosplayer son. And the phenomenon is not tied to today: Cora Reutemann, the daughter of the former governor of Santa Fehe dedicated himself to photography despite having studied political sciences. Art as a escape space of reality.
“In some cases, the children’s decision has to do with personal prestige and show,” he analyzes for news The social psychologist Joaquín Pichon-Rivière. And he adds: “There is an attempt at children to match, compete or separate from the shadow of the father.” Take off his last name from his father to get an autonomous life.
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In full summer season in Punta del Este, Tomás Redrado, Martín’s son, inaugurated an art gallery in Uruguay. The young gallery owner begins to consolidate himself as one of the protagonists of Latin American art, A project that began to develop in Pandemia in Miami.
In this way, the son of the former president of the Central Bank joined a litter of young people, children of politicians, who move away from the footsteps of his parents to devote himself to art, in his most varied expresss. The best known are the aforementioned cases of Agustina Macri and Florencia Kirchner. Both prefer not to give interviews or talk about their parents’ career. They could be more famous than they are, but choose to grow a low profile. “If they opened to the media they would receive dozens of journalistic consultations and reject that. They want to take off their name from his father and the artistic allows them, ”says Pichon-Rivière.
Florence was a production assistant in a documentary about his father and one of the scriptwriters of “The Camino de Santiago”a work on Santiago Maldonado that was awarded at the Havana Film Festival, Cuba. After abandoning his studies at the New York Film Academy, in 2011 he recorded the short film “Between scenes“That he wrote, produced and directed. In your Instagram account, it also publishes poems that you write, some with encrypted messages that have winks towards the reality that is going through. His artistic flight is constantly crossed by the political and judicial situation of his family.
Who managed to abstract even more of that issue was Agustina, the daughter of Mauricio Macri. The filmmaker directed a film that arrived in Netflix in 2024: “Miss Carbon” is the title of a work based on “The Queen of Coal”, a book of the dramatist Erika Halvorsen. Agustina hung her sociologist title to devote himself to art: in addition to making movies, she is a photographer. He worked with Oliver Stone and was awarded for his fiction feature film “Soledad.”
For your exhibition on social networks, Alberto Fernández’s son had moments of greater public exposure. Tani -o Dizzy- is a drag artist and shows part of his work on Instagram. Although he tries to stay out of his dad’s political career and his judicial scandals, he decided to publish a letter when the complaints of violence of Fabiola Yáñez broke out and took distance from Alberto.
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The most famous of the “children of” is Benjamín Amadeo. Eduardo’s son, former deputy and former ambassador, made his own career since he was very small. He debuted on TV at age 18, was part of successful novels and participated in the Cris Morena staff. Then he opened to music and streaming. As a parameter of his level of knowledge, Benjamin is the only one who has more followers in networks than his dad. The daughter of former Agriculture Minister Julián Domínguez also chose the music. Florence says that, from a very young age, I imagined that his thing was going to be the song. At 20 he took out his first album and began to get into the world of folklore. As the others, the young woman from Chascomús also should explain that she was making her path alone: ”I know it is inevitable that they relate to him, but my singer’s career I do without my dad’s help,” he said in the interviews he gave.
The high profile of their parents and the mud of politics led them to look for a different horizon. They grew up seeing their parents argue in the media, face furious criticisms, insults and even judicial situations. And they escape that situation. Cinema, poetry or music allows them to get away from permanent conflict and express themselves through creativity.
