NY exhibit remembers Latin America's 'disappeared'
NEW YORK -- In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
Now some of the tens of thousands who vanished during Latin America's so-called dirty wars will be introduced to New York on Friday when a stark exhibit, "The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)," opens at the Museo del Barrio for its first stop on a U.S. tour.
With works such as Arturo Duclos's Chilean flag made from 75 human femurs, the art on display recalls the political dissidents and others who were presumed killed under the region's military dictatorships from the 1950s to the 1980s...
"It's very disturbing," curator Laurel Reuter said. "And I think what finally propelled me into pulling the exhibition together was the more I realized the role of the United States in underpinning the dictatorships. We as Americans don't necessarily know what our country is doing."
Museum director Julian Zugazagoitia said he was concerned about presenting such a political topic, but that enough time had passed and the facts of what happened were no longer as contentious as they were during the Cold War.
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Now some of the tens of thousands who vanished during Latin America's so-called dirty wars will be introduced to New York on Friday when a stark exhibit, "The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)," opens at the Museo del Barrio for its first stop on a U.S. tour.
With works such as Arturo Duclos's Chilean flag made from 75 human femurs, the art on display recalls the political dissidents and others who were presumed killed under the region's military dictatorships from the 1950s to the 1980s...
"It's very disturbing," curator Laurel Reuter said. "And I think what finally propelled me into pulling the exhibition together was the more I realized the role of the United States in underpinning the dictatorships. We as Americans don't necessarily know what our country is doing."
Museum director Julian Zugazagoitia said he was concerned about presenting such a political topic, but that enough time had passed and the facts of what happened were no longer as contentious as they were during the Cold War.