Until the 80s of the late 20th Century, military coups were a sinister part of life in Bolivia, same as pain and misery. Unfortunately, those events were re-edited in November of 2019, and for a period of one year, in which a handful of civilians, police and military; broke the constitutional order by taking power by the force; and making the massacre, the incarceration and the robbery of public property, their favorite means for domination and revenue. On top of such misfortunes came the advent of the coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020. These happenings are not foreign to my condition as sociologist and painter, and I have portrayed them with the same pain caused by the deaths of sons, mothers, and fathers; massacred at Huayllani and Senkata, or killed by the pandemic.
By Iván Castellón Quiroga, Huayllani, Bolivia
December of 2020

You can visit this exhibition in 3D at:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/3736398/iv%C3%A1n-castell%C3%B3n-obras-en-tiempos-de-dictadura-y-pandemia