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Pasting Up Protest: The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking

Pasting Up Protest: The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking

Bilodeau, Annik

Paperback

Series: McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Book 9

Caribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0228025583
ISBN13: 9780228025580
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them. Political street art thrives; murals, stencils, and posters challenge authorities and commemorate the missing and the disappeared.

Pasting Up Protest explores the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary Mexican artists, introducing the concept of memory activism, the guiding philosophy behind their efforts to expose human rights violations such as forced disappearances and feminicides. Through her analysis of street art interventions from the collectives ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE and MuGRe over the past decade, Annik Bilodeau argues that these artists are shaping a new collective memory. By depicting real-life victims and referencing past acts of state-sponsored violence, their works create a familiar visual vocabulary that elicits empathy and compassion in the viewer. A reliance on a tradition of printmaking, a highly reproducible media, further amplifies the emotional impact of the images.

A critical examination of the role of art in creating public memory, Pasting Up Protest sheds light on how Mexican artists document crimes of the state, transforming citizens into political agents of change.

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