The weapons once used by Colombian rebels to wage war have been turned into a monument in the country’s capital, as the country grapples with its bloody past.
That deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (or Farc) formally ended 52 years of civil war that left 260,000 dead and over 7 million displaced. Other leftist rebel groups and state-aligned paramilitaries contributed to the bloodshed.
Last year the Farc turned in 37 tonnes of rifles, pistols and grenade launcherswhich the artist Doris Salcedo has had melted down and recast as tiles that line the floor of a new gallery space just a block from the presidential palace in Bogotá. The work, called Fragments was inaugurated on Monday. Leer más...