Carlos Cortez Dies - an anonymous remembrance

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Before the Disappearance
by Carlos Cortez

Before the Disappearance, by Carlos Cortez

Artwork Background Statement
At the Taller Mexicano de Grabado, a Mexican graphic workshop, Cortez (among others) were approached by a group of women from Guatemala whose collective experiences he depicts in this work. The women's husbands had disappeared from Guatemala, that is, taken by a death squad from their homes and families. Cortez gathered their stories in written form and determined a theme. He depicts a family home which has been broken into by members of the death squad, and one of the villager, a campesino, with a mask on his face, points out the woman's husband. The woman stands in the background, with her two children on the cot. Cortez says that she never saw her husband again.

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