Three impressive murals at the hospital's clinics pay tribute to the victims 25 years after the attack of the AMIA

The "Corredor of the Memoria", reminiscent of the attack committed by AMIA on July 18, 1994, was completed on Thursday with the inauguration of three gigantic murals painted by street artists at the same time. 39, Clínicas Hospital. In this medical center, the vast majority of victims were treated on the day of the explosion, which left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded.

"The exercise of memory is the constant struggle to bring something of the past and make it meaningful in this present," said AMIA Art Space director, Elio Kapszuk, one of the speakers of the inauguration, which was held in Buenos Aires, Plaza Houssay. The three wall paintings, 50 meters high and 14 meters wide, were painted on the side walls of the hospital facing Uriburu Street.
The first and closest to Cordoba Avenue, manufactured by Mariano Antedomenicosample a human chain to help the victims among the rubble of the AMIA building, describing one of the first images released by the media after the explosion, which occurred at 9:53 in the morning, at 633, Pasteur Street, Buenos Aires.

The second work, painted in grayscale by Martin RonIt's a tribute to hospital workers and shows a group of doctors moving stretchers with wounded.

Finally, in the mural closest to the rue du Paraguay, made by Mariela Achras, you see the face of a woman who represents justice, is blindfolded and locked in an hourglbad, in an allegory of 25 years of "impunity" since the attack until today.

"The memory corridor could not be concluded without an intervention at the hospital clinics, without the recognition of the fraternity that unites us 25 years ago and the commitment to life taken by all hospital employees, "Kapszuk said.

Because of its proximity to AMIA, the hospital of clinics, which depends on the University of Buenos Aires, received on July 18, 1994 the vast majority of people wounded by the attack. "This tragedy has marked our lives, AMIA is still hurting us"said Dr. Luis Sarotto at the inauguration, who was at the head of the medical center at the time of the attack.

"These murals fill us with happiness because they remind us of the indestructible link that unites us to the AMIAthey remind us that we must fight for such things not to happen again and they also recognize the work of all those who left their hands, their hours and their hearts that day, "he added. .

The realization of the murals project was possible thanks to an agreement signed between the authorities of the UBA and AMIA and with the support of the Hospital of Clínicas, of the Faculty of Medicine of UBA, Ministries of Culture and Urban Development. and transport of the Government of Buenos Aires.

The corridor of memory is an "intervention on the territory" that seeks to "leave traces and marks so that no one can have the impression that it has nothing happened to Pasteur" said Kapszuk.

The first point of the tribute is in the metro station B "Pasteur-AMIA", where more than 30 artists have intervened with works of art that represent the "claim of justice". Then, along the five blocks of Pasteur Street between Corrientes and Códoba avenues, 85 trees were planted with the names of each of the victims.

Another "hallmark of the corridor" is in the new building of the AMIA, which was built on the foundations of the previous one, but a few meters "removed from the construction line", leaving a wall of separation which has "the only two footprints of the old building: two beams glued to the wall". In this median, the artist Martin Ron painted the work called "Wall of Memory".