Since early November 2020, an unusual type of memorial has been quietly paying tribute to loved ones who died from Covid-19, with portraits made of sand depicting the faces of those lost to the pandemic:
, Lozano-Hemmer explains how the loss of a loved one has been compounded by the inability to mourn in traditional ways. “As a Mexican…we think a lot about death, and all the rituals, the toasts, the things that we do to have closure and to bid farewell are critical to our survival as a community,” he says. “And that could not happen.” With social distancing still in place, the artist and his studio wanted to find a way to bring people together emotionally, even across long distances.
“We thought that it was important that it’d be something live that somebody from any time zone could log into and experience, together with their loved ones,”he work comes out of “a desire from all of us to do something that would allow us to…not feel so lonely.”Lozano-Hemmer deems his artwork an “anti-monument” that stresses the importance for memorials “to
disappear, question themselves, that complicate some of the stories that we tell ourselves.” To date, hundreds of portraits have been made with the same sand, invoking what the artist describes as a “sense of universal solidarity around this.” He adds, “SWatch the video, which originally appeared as part of Art21’s” is on view at the Brooklyn Museum through June 26, 2022.
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