NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
Now some of the tens of thousands who vanished during Latin America's so-called dirty wars will be introduced to New York on Friday when a stark exhibit, "The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)," opens at the Museo del Barrio for its first stop on a U.S. tour.
With works such as Arturo Duclos's Chilean flag made from 75 human femurs, the art on display recalls the political dissidents and others who were presumed killed under the region's military dictatorships from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Works from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Venezuela lay bare the pain of those who survived, as many of the artists had loved ones who disappeared.
Sara Maneiro presents nine dark prints of dental records, evocative of a method for identifying the dead from mass graves. Antonio Frasconi displays 48 monotypes of testimonials and portraits about the disappeared of Argentina, including the haunting image of one young boy.
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