Art in Honor of Ayotzinapa's Missing 43 Students Carolina A. Miranda - The Los Angeles Times
go to original October 11, 2015

A protester in Mexico City commemorates the first anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa. Protesters have tackled the issue in striking and original visual ways — such as this figure, clad in a mask crowned with crucifixes. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

At the end of last month, citizens in cities around Mexico gathered to commemorate and protest the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa one year ago. In a country wracked by violence, the case of the disappeared students continues to resonate.

...As with protests elsewhere — consider "Umbrella Man," the icon of last year's pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong — the Ayotzinapa manifestations in Mexico have inspired a frenzy of art-making: impromptu installations, murals, banners, masks and costumes. These borrow as much from popular culture as they draw from traditions of Mexican folk art.

And altogether, they tell an interesting story: The 43 may be gone, but they will not be forgotten.

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Related: 43 Missing Mexican Students Art Exhibition in Puerto Vallarta (Oficina de Proyectos Culturales)

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