maria tasca

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While watching images from prisons, I noticed a notational system usually linked to incarcerated people. These graphical signs are generally used to remember the ending of every confinement day. Sometimes the accumulation of the lines means that freedom is near (and a new hope arises). My poster instead replaces the "lines" with icons, and the counting of the days with the counting of the deaths.
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Death is not justice


Our 2010 project asked for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
For us it’s simple. The death penalty is a violation of human rights. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” How does that fit with beheading, stoning, hanging, lethally injecting or shooting someone?

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