Protest and Paint: What the #Ayotzinapa Resistance Art Looks Like Right Now Phoebe Young - Brown Political Review | |
go to original December 20, 2014 |
The relentless global protests that have unfolded in the weeks since the students’ disappearance have created a forceful mill of discontented resistance to the status quo. But a surge of art as both a memorial to the missing and a protest against the government has allowed its creators to speak through these memorials, voicing the everyday frustrations, fears and resistance to the larger political climate that they live in.
The protest artwork that has come out of these events is, much like the protests themselves, meant to be broadcast and consumed widely — the voices of the artists are uniform yet individual, each one echoes national exhaustion and frustration. But the forums that broadcast this message differ greatly.
For artists like Yescka, a street artist from Oaxaca and the founder of the political art collective ASARO, the disappearance demarcates a new mistrust of the government. He alludes to this in one of his most recent works, a wheat paste piece of five men standing with their backs against a wall, hands tied, heads down. Three of them have soccer jerseys with the words “Justice,” “Ayotzinapa,” and “October 2nd” written across their backs — an allusion to the 1968 Tlaltelolco Massacre when military and police killed some 300 students in the Tlaltelolco sector of Mexico City — one of the major events that fomented deeply rooted public doubt in the national government.
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In this video, painter Jesus Anaya explains what inspired him and a group of fellow artists to paint a portrait of each of the missing students in a public square in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero. (Fusion)
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