As part of the opening weekend of Pedro Reyes: DIRECT ACTION, SITE Santa Fe presents a conversation between artist Pedro Reyes and Miranda Viscoli, president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence and founder of Guns to Gardens, a gun buyback program rooted in New Mexico. Reyes and Visoli will discuss the power of transforming deadly materials into something life-giving through their experience working with community and law enforcement to decommission guns, planting trees, and creating musical instruments from gun parts.
Pedro Reyes: DIRECT ACTION
On view through May 15, 2023
DIRECT ACTION is a solo exhibition by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Celebrated for his large-scale, immersive, sculptural projects bridging aesthetic research and social practice, Reyes’ work propose playful, multimedia solutions to social and political problems.