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Artist Miriam Cabello

Sydney, Australia

Two Soldiers

Oil Painting

Artist Statement
In the spirit of Linus Galleries theme “Political Statements” exhibition, my artworks highlight the ‘first’ and often over looked September 11 – the Chilean military coup in 1973 that brought Augusto Pinochet to power and heralded a dark chapter in my home country’s history.
Soldiers in uniform are set upon a grid of gestural drips. The textured “background” weaves and interlocks the soldiers within a painterly grid symbolizing wire fences, incarceration and refugee camps.
The colors denote; red for blood, viridian green for lucrative ‘exposed’ copper; blues for melancholy, allude to corporate interests, oppression and diaspora. Thousands of Chilean civilians were murdered, tens of thousands “disappeared”.
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