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Adán Vallecillo talks about his work

Saturday, February 9, 2019
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Translation:
Hello, my name is Adán Vallecillo, I’m participating in the show Portadores de sentido with the work Municiones, which comes from a wider body of work in which I was interested in exploring the idea of asepsis in its socio-political dimensions. I grew up on the border of Honduras and Nicaragua during the 1980s, in a territory occupied by the counter-revolutionary militias, which were financed by the government of the United States to combat the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. In the work, asepsis appears linked to militarization, this compulsive obsession of power to silence and eliminate whatever is in its way, whatever bothers it, whatever dissents.

 

Artwork

  • Adán Vallecillo, Municiones (2007)

    Adán Vallecillo

    Municiones

    2007

    Metal boxes for ammunition and wood applicators, cotton swabs, and zinc sheet

    Dimensions variable

    The Bronx Museum of the Arts... 

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    The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

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Portadores de sentido

Exhibition held at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, February 9–July 22, 2019. More

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