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Mexican artist Pedro Reyes showcased his international project Disarm as the inaugural exhibition of the Centro de las Artes Inmersivas (CAI) in Mexico City, where he turned confiscated firearms into automated and non-automated musical instruments.

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00:27I think that already knowing the context
00:29that they are weapons, it carries that feeling of sadness
00:34from what we live.
00:36We managed to gather 7,000 weapons
00:41and then the process began to do musical instruments.
00:46It was a series of experiments
00:49to make instruments of percussion, of wind, of rope.
00:56It is precisely an effort that has to do with the problem
01:01of the proliferation of fire weapons
01:05that come especially from the United States.
01:07It represents, on the one hand,
01:09current circumstances, from many years to today,
01:13the things that happen in Mexico.
01:15Unfortunately, there are very important issues
01:20and, evidently, many issues of this violence
01:24are somehow supported by weapons.
01:26And because we have weapons
01:28that probably do not correspond to be here,
01:30they are simply here.
01:31When you get something like objects, like guns,
01:34you do want to do something really...
01:37something very dramatic, something very dark,
01:40but also something that has light at the end
01:42and gives you a sense of peace and hope.
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