Forty-three kites bearing 43 black-and-white faces hang from the ceiling of the Reina Sofía, each one a mute appeal for answers, remembrance and justice.
The show is based on research by the Red Conceptualismos del Sur , which has spent years examining how street art has been used as a tool of creative resistance in Latin America. As well as the posters and kites that feature the faces of the missing, there are panels embroidered with messages, some plaintive – “They sowed the seeds of tomorrow’s struggle”, “Your future students are waiting for you in the mountains so they can learn their first letters” – and some angry: “They took them alive, we want them alive” and “No forgiving, no forgetting”.
In the show’s catalogue, he writes: “Like ivy, graphic art grows on walls that are no longer made of stone, and it breaks out again and again. It takes on new forms – which often contain echoes of its previous incarnations – but it never loses its ability to ask questions of us.”
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