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[HO]: History is history, although each of us internalizes it differently; the same happens with death. Does your insistence on it establish any philosophical source, or, on the contrary, a recent historical reference of the country?
[m+j]: Starting from two famous myths involving death (both Evita and General Perón), we reiterate something we've mentioned before: the importance of La República de los Niños (The Republic of the Children). The childlike scale of the amusement park accentuates the fabric of violence involved in the murder of a teenager, worked by us in the workshop, as a social texture or backdrop. The contradiction at play here is an oscillation that seems constant in our country, and it’s the axis of Justice/Injustice. The crime remained unpunished for years, and we thought it served as a clear example of the state of injustice in Argentina.
In the case also mentioned, the marinas of the Río de la Plata made—either with garbage bags or modeling clay in shades of red—were a clear reference to the events that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship, where state terrorism threw its victims from helicopters into the river in garbage bags.
—Héctor Olea, 2017