In this interview Antonio speaks about a series of art projects worked on over the years. Including a work that details the faces of disappeared guerrilla fighters in Mexico in the 1970s, the project is called "Las Flores Nacen en Silencio."
Antonio writes, "I continued investigating the genocide that the Mexican State committed between the 60s, 70s and 80s against students and peasants by murdering and disappearing more than three thousand of them. Actually, even today everything that happened in those years is somewhat hidden, silenced, as if one wanted it to go unnoticed.
Fortunately, for a few years now, various publications have begun to emerge that draw the veil with which the state has covered those years and show us various aspects of the so-called Mexican Socialist Armed Movement."
Antonio speaks about projects undertaken to support the Zapatista movement and also a project called "Los Caminos de la Libertad," or "The Paths of Freedom," which highlights activist writers and social actors that are important to the current moment.
Also in this exchange Antonio speaks about balancing between the institutional art world and an active street art practice, including works that share an illuminate Indigenous languages and resistance to mining corporations outside of Mexico City.
Learn more about Antonio's work here :
https://www.antoniogriton.com
This interview was recorded and produced as part of an interview series worked on in Mexico City for Free City Radio by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. In the background you can hear Naima Karlsson practicing.
