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DNA: Dialogues of emancipation (2013)

Title: DNA

Author: Victor Espinoza-Francisco Papas 
Technique: embroidery with hair on raw canvas cloth 
Description: This embroidery was made with human hair of one of the mothers of the 81 inmates who died in the slaughter of San Miguel prison. The image that was chosen to make the portrait is a family register where the mother and her son appear in one of the last visits in the same prison where he died on December 8, 2010 along with his 80 companions.

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