UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageHuman Resource Exploitation: A Family Album
- September 24, 2021 - January 15, 2022
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Front:
- Form No. J 1780935: Ramiro’s death certificate.
- Letter and sketch from Ramiro to the artist’s mother.
- Photograph of Ramiro at his drafting desk taken around 1978.
- University newspaper which ran a commemoration to Ramiro when he was assassinated.
- Hand-drawn greeting card designed by Ramiro for commercial sale.
- Letter to Ramiro celebrating the birth of his daughter (the artist). Written just three months before his assassination.
- Letter written by Ramiro to artist’s mother.
- Souvenir painting of a street in Antigua Guatemala, artist unknown. Antigua is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was the capital of Guatemala for more than 200 years until 1776 when an earthquake caused the administration to relocate to Guatemala City.
Back:
-Telegraph sent to Ramiro for his birthday by his 8-month-old daughter (the artist’s older sister) via the artist’s mother.
- Birthday party invitation; original design by Ramiro.
- Envelope from the School of Architecture at the Universidad de San Carlos sent to
Ramiro containing invoices for work he did for the school.
- Photograph taken by Ramiro of a family celebration at San Rafael de las Flores, Guatemala.
- Souvenir wood-carved jaguar figurine, artist unknown.
- Ramiro’s hand drawings of a flower, a house, and an elephant for his sister’s elementary school students at Escuela Oficial Urbana in San Rafael de las Flores, Guatemala.
- Textiles: Hand loomed textiles from Guatemala, artist unknown.