The decommissioned weapon is usually destroyed, but the Mexican artist decided to make something more creative out of it. Earlier this year, Pedro Reyes recycled 6,700 pieces of confiscated weapons in musical instruments for a project called Imagine. Revolvers, guns and machine guns, which were previously used to kill steel spiritual, percussion and stringed instruments. Now they are exhibited in the Biennale, Istanbul.

The project was inspired by Shovels for Pistols, a 2008 project that transforms 1,527 weapons into 1527 spades, to plant the same number of trees in the botanical garden of Culiacán, the western Mexico. Earlier this year, the government formally contacted Pedro to offer him weapons that were confiscated in Juyad-Juarez, to create something completely unusual. Pedro accepted the challenge and collaborated with six musicians who, for two weeks, performed a magical act of turning deadly weapons into musical instruments.

"It's hard to explain, but the transformation was something more." This is important to take into account, since many lives were taken away by this weapon, we seem to have committed a kind of exorcism, the demon drive by music, thus making a requiem for life and dreams, "says Pedro .

80,000 deaths from firearms in Mexico over the past six years, violence affecting other Latin American countries. Given such a terrible statistics, the original work of art, which combines welding and music, has a strong political connotation. This expression dreams about the world without weapons.

Выставка продлится до 12-го декабря в Биеннале, Istanbul.

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