Spain Asks for Forgiveness

In November 2018, through a conference and live performance by artist Abel Azcona in the Bogotá Contemporary Art Museum the work Spain Asks for Forgiveness (España os Pide Perdón in Spanish) began, a piece of critical and anticolonialist content.^[1][2] In the first action Azcona read a text of ninety two hours for more than four hours. In the reading the cite Spain Asks for Forgiveness was repeated continuously. Two months later, Azcona was invited to present his work in Mexico City in the Mexico City Museum, where he installed a sailcloth with the same sentence on it.^[3][4][5] Just a few days later the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a press conference demanded publicly an apology from Spain.^[6][7][8] Since then until mid 2020, the work has been shown in diverse ways and has achieved to become a collective movement.^[9] In May 2020 the Bogotá Contemporary Art Museum painted its facade with the installation's motto España os pide perdón for two months in the centre of the city of Bogotá.^[10] Other cities such as Havana, Cuba;^[11] Lima, Peru; Caracas, Venezuela; Panama City, Panama; Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Quito, Ecuador have been protagonists of the piece through paintings, sailcloths, posters or demonstrations and collective acts continuing the work as a collective protest.^[12]

• Installation art
• Endurance art