Friday, May 18, 2007

Water Painting South America's "Disappeared"

Follow this link to a video of part of an art installation about South America's disappeared. The artist (Oscar Muñoz) paints a face of someone disappeared on stone using water, only to have this image, like the victim, disappear without a trace:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid626919000/bctid900554636

Oscar Muñoz, Proyecto para un monumento (Project for a Memorial), 2005. Video courtesy the artist and El Museo del Barrio, New York.

See more of this show on Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2166386?nav=tap3

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