Secuestro a la Patria

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Gesture Between the Symbolic and the Real

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Secuestro a la Patria reappropriates the classic mechanism of extortion used by kidnappers: the ear of a national hero is severed and sent as proof of life to the president of the republic, demanding a ransom.

Though the gesture is rooted in the symbolic, it does not remain there. It also operates within the realm of the real, questioning official narratives, the untouchable figures of national imagination, and the power structures that uphold them.

It is an action that directly confronts the boundaries between representation, violence, and belonging.