Derechos y reveses [Rights and missadventures / fronts and backs]

Its a play on words in Spanish which means simultaneously rights and misadventures and fronts and backs which is the key to understand the participatory / interactive subtext of the piece.

The work plays in a double way, also as an activist strategy to
funnel funds out of a private university linked with the political and econocimal elite of the city to buy ppe for front line protestors of mainly public universites that were at the time taking to the streets and were systematically maimed and killed by the esmad (colombia’s riot police)
It consists of 30 placards that have the structure and usage of a diy anti riot police shield. Because of it the typography was developed prioritizing robustness and ensuring maximum usage in Spanish and modularity (most shields can be used to represent more than one character with some even allowing 4) and were built using metal sheeting, a very popular material for low income homes in rural and urban areas.

During the exhibition the works were lendable to protesters to go and use the elements both as shields and placards.