''Buried'' is a conceptual and performative work of critical, social and

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Abel Azcona Abel Azcona (born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art. His work includes installations, sculptures, and video art. He is known as the "''enfant terrible''" of Spanish contemporary art. His first works dealt with ...

. The performance artwork was created in 2015 through a public and participatory performance, or

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, on the esplanade of Franco's Monument to the Fallen in Pamplona. Azcona invited dozens of relatives of

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who were shot, persecuted or disappeared during the Spanish Civil War. Descendants of victims make up the installation in a row in front of the monument, all symbolically buried with soil from the garden of one of the participants, where his relatives had been shot. In 2016 the city of Pamplona invited Azcona to show his work inside the Monument and the project was recreated inside the Monument, which had been converted into an exhibition hall, under the name of ''Unearthed: A

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work of the artist Abel Azcona.'' The exhibition brought together the ''Buried'' project and fragments of all of Azcona's works. In 2016, Azcona coordinated a new performative action, or happening, with relatives of those who were shot in the '' Pozos de Caudé''. Under the name of ''Desafectos'', Azcona formed a wall with the relatives as a complaint, next to the wells outside the city of

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, where more than a thousand people had been shot and thrown into the wells over the course of three days during the Civil War.

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