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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Madrid show explores graphic art’s role as tool of resistance in Latin America

An exhibit in the show at the Reina Sofía in Madrid
An exhibit in the show, which also looks into how marginalised and abused people have used graphic art to fight back. Photograph: Reina Sofía

Forty-three kites bearing 43 black-and-white faces hang from the ceiling of the Reina Sofía, each one a mute appeal for answers, remembrance and justice.

Close by, T-shirts and posters clamour for equality, a forest of placards commemorates the detained, disappeared and dead of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, and an icon of the struggle for Peruvian independence undergoes a queer, pop art makeover.

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