WHEN STREET ART TAKES ON POLITICS

The ex ESMA (La Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada) in Buenos Aires has turned into a ground zero for some moving work from the areas well-known Street Artists.

“During the last military dictatorship in Argentina, The Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics in the neighbourhood of Nuñez was used as a clandestine detention, torture and extermination centre.

While the military junta were in charge of Argentina from 1976 to 1983 an estimated 30,000 people referred to as ‘Los disparecidos’ or ‘the Disappeared’ were kidnapped by the police and army with an estimated 5,000 ‘dissidents’ held prisoner at the ex ESMA. The site is now a memorial space and a number of street artists including Nazza Stencil, Morazul, Milu Correch and MPC were invited to paint around a square named ‘Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos’ (Space of Memory and Human Rights).”

*images and story from BA Street Art

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