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Guantanamo Museum, a collaboration with Alicia Framis.

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Guantanamo Museum, a collaboration with
Alicia Framis
I was invited to participate in the exhibition "Guantanamo Museum" by Alicia Framis. I worked on the concept and design of some objects for the exhibition. All these objects were conceived and designed as souvenirs that could be sold in the shop of that hypothetical Guantanmo Museum which artist Alicia Framis thinks will exist in a future.

"[...] The Spanish artist Alicia Framis decided to come forward, basing her aesthetics ideas on the future of Guantanamo. She assures that not far from today Guantanamo Prison will be transformed in a museum. The human being has a remarkable tendency of create museums about everything and everyplace; in this occasion the artist explore the memory of horror of places like Auschwitz or Alcatraz and analyzes the historic process of how something so awful can be converted in a tourist places; a souvenir. One of the main question that appears during Framis investigation is about which is the real importance of a "memorial", maybe there are necessary, perhaps stop thinking about something is worst than make it domestic. [...]"

For further information about the exhibition visit www.aliciaframis.com. 

The exhibition took place in Barcelona Santa Monica Art Centre in 2008. www.artssantamonica.cat
This is a USB pen drive with the shape of a chalk eraser. Inside the memory of the USB pen there are two folders, one containing a document with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other one containing pictures of prisoners of Guantanamo prison. So you decide if save or delete them.
The complete kit of Ken Guantanamo. The famous doll as a Guantanamo prisoner with hood, dark sunglasses, chains, barbed wire and with his box packaging. You can play with the prisoner and have fun.
Vinyl sticker for traffic lights. Use it to paste when orange light is on. 
Guantanamo Museum, a collaboration with Alicia Framis.
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