Birbs!

#50AñosDeMemorias #Chile #Suecia #Sweden #Svärje

Today we painted.

The painting was a collaboration between Brigada Luna and Chilean muralist Robinson Avello.

The mural is not painted in the regular Brigada Luna style, which mainly focuses on people who have lived in, and as, the consequence of the coup and dictatorship, but this time lends itself to more classical themes.

The mural is roughly 15-20 metres by three metres.

Edit: Alt-text added.

#BrigadaLuna #50AñosDeMemorias #50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #Malmö #Chile #Suecia #Sweden #Sverige #Mural #MastoArt #WeDidAThing

50 år av minnen / dokumentärfilmsfestival

50 år av minnen Chile / Suecia – Dokumentärfilmer, samtal, konstutställning, Arpillera workshop, musik, poesi och mingel.

I år är det 50 år sedan militärkuppen i Chile. Det är 50 år av minnen, kärlek, sorg, kamp, liv och motstånd. Under 2023 har vi en grupp människor, alla med koppling till Chile och från olika generationer, samlats och bedriver olika aktiviteter för att minnas och uppmärksamma de 50 åren i Sverige samt kollektivt hedra och uppmärksamma diktaturens offer, synliggöra dess konsekvenser och de sociala rörelser som uppstått.

Genom en dokumentärfilmsfestival, under tre dagar på Panora i Malmö och en dag på Röda Kvarn i Helsingborg, vill vi med film och samtal lyfta olika perspektiv och teman som dessa 50 år av minnen inneburit och som även synliggör andra och tredje generationens erfarenheter som barn till de som satt fängslade som politiska fångar, de som försvann, de som torterades och de som flydde undan diktaturen.

Festivalen presenterar även utställningen "50 år av minnen Chile / Suecia", vilket är en utställning med latinamerikanska konstnärer från olika generationer som tolkar och synliggör sina erfarenheter av exil och migration. Genom olika stilar, konstnärliga uttryck och perspektiv presenteras delar av den chilenska diktaturens konsekvenser.

https://www.facebook.com/events/315445160893638

#50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #50AñosDeMemorias #Dokumentärfilmsfestival #Malmö #Chile #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden #Panora #RödaKvarn

forgot the link. oops.

https://www.tiktok.com/@brigadaluna/video/7240902001360375067?_t=8ctRhaiOtZ5&_r=1

#brigadaluna #ParaQueNuncaMas #mapuche #cultrun #50anosdememorias #50aravminnen #50yearsofmemories #malmo #suecia #sverige #sweden

we tikked a tok.

#BrigadaLuna #ParaQueNuncaMas #Mapuche #Cultrun #50AñosDeMemorias #50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #Malmö #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden

muralmålningen fortsätter. färgläggning.

#brigadaluna #ParaQueNuncaMas #mapuche #cultrun #50anosdememorias #50aravminnen #50yearsofmemories #malmo #suecia #sverige #sweden

det första som hände var att en svenne som såg ett gäng svartskallar måla på en fri vägg började jiddra om regler och om hur kommunen borde reglera väggen.

#brigadaluna #ParaQueNuncaMas #mapuche #cultrun #50anosdememorias #50aravminnen #50yearsofmemories #malmo #suecia #sverige #sweden

På söndag målar vi.

El domingo pintamos.

This Sunday we paint.

#BrigadaLuna #ParaQueNuncaMas #Mapuche #Cultrun #50AñosDeMemorias #50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #Malmö #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden

Frige alla politiska fångar!
50 år av minnen Chile-Suecia

As always a collaborative effort. Lot's of people stopped by to talk, some helped us paint, some helped us with translations.

In all a good day.

#BrigadaLuna #FrigeAllaPolitiskaFångar #LibertadALosPresosPoliticos #Chile #Sverige #Suecia #Sweden #50ÅrAvMinnen #50AñosDeMemorias #50YearsOfMemories #Malmö #KvinnaLivFrihet #ZanZendegiAzadi

Kanske lägga till Zan Zendegi Azadi?

#ZanZendegiAzadi #WomanLifeFreedom

#BrigadaLuna #Mural #50AñosDeMemorias #50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #Chile #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden #PoliticalPrisoners

Planerar nästa muralmålning...

#BrigadaLuna #Mural #50AñosDeMemorias #50ÅrAvMinnen #50YearsOfMemories #Chile #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden #PoliticalPrisoners

...and here's an archived link to an opinion piece about Swedish weapons export to Chile—and how these weapons are used (to this very day) to strike down protests in the country: https://archive.is/6ZLcM

There is also historical proof of Swedish companies financing the coup d'etat of '73.

We're literally here, in Sweden, because Sweden was there... in Chile.

#WeAreHere #YouAreThere #YouWereThere #Chile #Sweden #Sverige #50YearsOfMemories #50ÅrAvMinnen #50AñosDeMemorias

Here's a description of the image (explaining my thoughts aswell):

Graphic of an stylised eye in the colours of the chilean flag with fat, black borders. The iris is blue with a white pupil in the shape of the eight-pointed Mapuche star. The sclera is white, with red blood gathered at the bottom. A red drop (of blood) falls from one corner of the eye.

The eye is pointed upwards-inwards (leftwards in the graphic) as if unseeing/blinded/damaged.
Nine bullets are pointed towards the eye, forming the lashes. The bullets are blue and decorated with three yellow crowns each; the crowns being the national emblem of Sweden. (The colours are those of the Swedish flag, albeit with a border in a slightly darker shade around the graphic.)

#WeAreHere #YouAreThere #YouWereThere #Chile #Sweden #Sverige #50YearsOfMemories #50ÅrAvMinnen #50AñosDeMemorias

Here's a description of the image (explaining my thoughts aswell):

Graphic of an stylised eye in the colours of the chilean flag with fat, black borders. The iris is blue with a white pupil in the shape of the eight-pointed Mapuche star. The sclera is white, with red blood gathered at the bottom. A red drop (of blood) falls from one corner of the eye.

The eye is pointed upwards-inwards (leftwards in the graphic) as if unseeing/blinded/damaged.
Nine bullets are pointed towards the eye, forming the lashes. The bullets are blue and decorated with three yellow crowns each; the crowns being the national emblem of Sweden. (The colours are those of the Swedish flag, albeit with a border in a slightly darker shade around the graphic.)

#WeAreHere #YouAreThere #YouWereThere #Chile #Sweden #Sverige #50YearsOfMemories #50ÅrAvTystnad #50AñosDeMemorias

We are here because you were there. We are here because you are there.

#WeAreHere #YouAreThere #YouWereThere #Chile #Sweden #Sverige #50YearsOfMemories #50ÅrAvTystnad #50AñosDeMemorias

For anyone seeking more info on the illegal adoptions from #Chile to #Sweden, please see https://chileadoption.se/

#ChileAdoption #NoMasSilencio #IngenMeraTystnad #50ÅrAvTystnad #50AñosDeMemorias #50YearsOfSilence #DeStulnaBarnen #BrigadaLuna

Let's explain the mural:

The blue is the sky and the ocean. The blue is the expanse, the distance, in both space and time. The crests of the waves are the hashtags -- #NoMasSilencio #IngenMeraTystnad -- representing the demand for justice for the 2200 illegal adoption from #Chile to #Sweden, of which only approx 200 are under scrutiny, and those are only being investigated from the Chilean side.

Link: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/interpellation/brottsutredningen-av-chilenska-adoptioner_HA10165

The babies are the stolen children, the briefcase represents the travel, the bait & switch (a briefcase filled with babies instead of gold bars). The label clarifies the number of adoptions (2200) between Chile and Sweden.
The baby on the ground, the artisanal doll, represents the same, but also the loneliness, the innocence of a baby (who sleeps with a smile on their face), the fragility and the ease of how it can be made to disappear. (The doll was, as previously remarked, stolen on the evening of the same day as the mural was painted.)

The birds -- in the classical shape of Chilean women's artisanal #Lanografias / art used to communicate with their imprisoned partners/family -- represent the crying mothers creating the very sea with their tears. The birds also form the eastern coast line of the southern half of South America, representing other countries (mainly #Argentina & #Uruguay) who had their children stolen under & by dictatorship.
The fish, otoh, represent the Swedish families, since the tragedy is double: On the receiving side aswell as on the side of the stolen children, the "delivering" side.

The stitching on the letters also represent traditional women's art -- #Arpilleras -- which, lamentably, is often looked down upon as "not real art" or "not political [enough]" simply because it is practiced by women. This is a patriarchal notion Chile -- aswell as Sweden, mind you -- still struggles with.

The phrase "50 years of memories" is used to demark that it's the memories of many, the years of many, the lives of many affected. Much like the famous Allende quote "El futuro es nuesto y lo hacen los pueblos"(sic) -- "The future is ours and is made by the peoples"(n.b.) -- speaks of multitudes and not singularities.

#ChileAdoption #DeStulnaBarnen #BrigadaLuna #Malmö #Suecia #Sverige #50ÅrAvMinnen #50AñosDeMemorias #50YearsOfMemories