50 år av minnen Chile/Suecia:
INVIGNING MED MUSIK, POESI + VERNISSAGE

Lördag 9 september kl 16:30
Panora, Malmö

#50ÅrAvMinnen #Malmö #Panora #Chile #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden #ChileDesperto #Arpilleras #Poesi #Vernissage #Invigning

Arpillera-workshop med Bélgica Castro Fuentes

Söndag 10 september kl 11:00
Panora, Malmö

#50ÅrAvMinnen #Malmö #Panora #Chile #Suecia #Sverige #Sweden #ChileDesperto #Arpilleras

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