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“Los Relicarios” a installation of suspended lighted lockets that reflect on female methodists of protest during the Argentine Dictatorship. Las Madres (the mothers) use to protest the disappearance of their children with lockets in the streets. A locket is a feminine, delicate and intimate object normally worn close to the heart. These women, took the emotional and internal to effectively speak truth to power. Suspended lockets have the faces of those disappeared while others are left blank with a twinkling light, because we do not have images for all of those who disappeared. The artist re-sings protests songs the mothers, now grandmothers, use to and still chant on the streets: “Nunca, nunca, nunca paramos / siempre, siempre, siempre luchamos / nunca, nunca, nunca olvidamos” (We will never stop, with will always fight, we will never forget).