David Torres Garcia holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Culture and Communication Studies from the Universidad Veracruzana. D. student in Social Sciences at the same university. His thesis project is entitled "Agency and collective action at the foot of the grave. The searches of Colectivo Solecito, Colectivo de Familias de Desaparecidos Orizaba-Córdoba and Buscando a Nuestros Desaparecidos y Desaparecidas Veracruz".

Realidades socioculturales

“Their Gazes in Our Memory”. Graffiti as a Discursive Strategy as a Response to Forced Disappearances in the Córdoba-Orizaba Region

  • Celia del Palacio Montiel
  • David Torres Garcia

This article is concerned with presenting the murals about the young people who disappeared in the Orizaba-Córdoba region of the state of Veracruz, where forced disappearance has been a serious problem for years. The work elaborated by the artist Aldo Daniel Hernández, Fise, is analyzed as an act of resistance by the mothers of the Collective, as a struggle against oblivion and impunity, placing it in its context and analyzing the reactions of authorities and society. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of the sociology of art proposed by García Canclini (2006) and taken up by Salazar (2011) for murals in Ciudad Juárez, focusing on the organizational process for the creation of such works, the ideological framework that may have conditioned them and the visual discursive strategies applied. A discursive struggle becomes visible between victims who seek to make injustice visible and preserve memory and other actors who seek to silence them.