“La resistencia” (Spanish for Resistance) is the work of Florencia Duran and Camilo Núñez, from the popular Uruguayan muralist duo Colectivo Licuado, painted a few weeks before they headed to Ostend in Belgium, in order to take part of this year’s The Crystal Ship.
The mural depicts three women holding each others hands at a shoulder level. The women are dressed with wide shirts that follow Colectivo Licuado’s signature palette in earth colours. The women, Edith, Adriana and María Luz have been portrayed in a way that anonymise them. Why? because these three represent a larger group of women that at one point were jailed because of their political convictions during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–85).
As explained by the artists, it is difficult to see in these women what they went through then. They still meet today to talk and share their experiences, but mostly in between laughs and comradeship, always showing a positive attitude towards life with no regrets whatsoever.
As usual with the duo, they met these three women, who told them about their experiences, not once what they have gone through during this difficult period, but also the years after that. After the meeting it became clear that if there was one concept they could highlight in respect to their relationship, it was the concept of “union”, a union that in many ways became their salvation.
The mural was painted as part of Festival of Arte Urbano WANG organized in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
