The Unrepresentable: Art & Sexual Violence
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paul<br />
acevedo<br />
My piece appropriates the narrative of the<br />
Spanish song that my parents would sing to me<br />
and my brothers when we were little, “[D]uérmete<br />
niño duérmete ya, que viene el coco, y te comerá.”<br />
It translates, “[S]leep boy, sleep now, the Coco is<br />
coming, and he’ll eat you up.” This in an attempt to<br />
draw a connection to the challenges faced by women<br />
and men during the night. It is a personal response<br />
to the idea of keeping a person away from danger by<br />
singing the song and scaring the person from staying<br />
up all night. My work invites the viewer to stand up<br />
and to take back the night by not being afraid to stand<br />
up for equality.<br />
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Coco nunca más!, Linocut triptych, 2017, 5x6”<br />
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