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Gloria Evaporada (Evaporated Glory)

ahenry — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:06:45 +0000

In June 1994, the remains of 10 people were handed over by the police for their families. Months before they had been kidnapped and murdered by a paramilitary squad then burnt with kerosene to prevent identification. In an act of contempt the remains were delivered in cardboard boxes, most from the milk bran Gloria.

On 14 June 1995, the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori enacted the Amnesty Act, the military tried for this and other crimes get out of jail. At dawn on 17 June I pasted the collage “evaporated” in the Expressway, opposite the National Stadium, with spray adhesive.

On June 23^rd called a performance on the occasion of the National March Against Impunity. I put one of the boxes on my head and handed out flyers to invite people do the same and go to Congress, where the amnesty law was declared. The flyer denounced “the state industry to evaporate people.” The march lasted several hours, arriving at dusk near Congress. A police cordon blocked us and we threw the boxes on their heads, they kicked them out and unintentionally brought the boxes closer to Congress.

Previously, in October 1994, I exhibited the installation “Evaporated Gloria” (Glory Evaporated) at the Art School of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the National University of San Marcos. The invitation to the exhibition were silkscreen prints on pieces of Gloria cardboard milk.

During the opening night of the exhibition a group of artists improvised a ritual, which was spontaneously joined by the audience, that of which become recorded on video.

The Crown Jewels

ahenry — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:53:51 +0000

Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba, 1967) 2009 Installation 8 silver sculptures, wood, glass Variable dimensions Photography of each jewlery by: Ela Bialkowska [link url="http://www.carlosgaraicoa.com/" text="(Courtesy of the artist and Gallería Continua, San Giminiano, Beijing, Le Moulin)"]

Shining Path

limaceditor3 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:59:57 +0000

Shining Path refers to the first public action of the Peruvian Shining Path guerilla movement. On a January morning of 1980, eight dogs were hanged at significant Lima locations with cardboard ads attached, with sentences that came from Mao’s red book.

CMX04

ahenry — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:31:42 +0000

From March 4 to March 10, 2004 took place in Madrid and other European capitals antiterrorist exercises of NATO. The scenario was an attack by Al Qaeda with 200 dead and a thousand injured. Completed the exercise, the next day, 191 workers on their way to Madrid to work were killed and thousands wounded in an attack that was first attributed to ETA and then a group of dealers of hashish. The Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, being asked about the relationship between the exercises and the Madrid bombings said it was “mere coincidence”.
These exercises were called, Crisis Management Exercise 2004, for short CMX04.

Selected Pages

limac — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:04:25 +0000

Reynier Leyva Novo (Cuba, 1983) 2007 - 2010 Giclee print on cotton paper 30 x 40 cm. 36 pages in box Edition of 5 (Courtesy of the artist)