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"Siete Dias/Seven Days" is a powerful new installation by Vincent Valdez. Silkscreened onto an unevenly translucent textile and suspended from the ceiling, twenty-one image and text panels seem to float in a darkened gallery. Fourteen portraits of disappeared persons, sourced from an archival calendar published in the 1980s in Central America, emanate a ghostly presence. Organized like a chapel, the portraits are hung in two rows, and visitors may either be seated on a bench at the entrance of the gallery or walk along the center and side aisles formed by the panels to view the …