De cuando las estatuas besan el suelo. Reflexiones en torno al papel de la iconoclasia en el movimiento Black Lives Matter (BLM)

Abstract

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police last 26th of May, 2020, led to a series of antiracist and anti-cop protests that developed to a series of iconoclastic interventions on different commemorative monuments all over the world. All of these affected monuments are related to the colonial past and racism in the USA, as well as in Europe and Latin America. These actions have been branded as vandalism by international mass media. In disagreement with the official media, the objective of the present article is to critically analyze the intentionality with which the monuments were erected and why are they an objective for the protests from the study of the different cases that took place in the recent past, thus establishing a dialogue between our respective disciplines, Art and History, and clarifying hot spot issues like the actual dichotomy between "erasing history", "vandalism" and the claim and public space transformative actions