A cross with pink hearts within a montage

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A cross with pink hearts within a montage. Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; one of a series of anti-AIDS posters produced by Artis entitled 'Imágenes contra el SIDA' [Images against AIDS]. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.

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El Colonialismo. Es el verdadero SIDA. Imágenes contra el SIDA. Artis. Paris - France. Juan Sánchez. Signed by Juan Sanchez, an black American artist born 1954. Also bears further lettering along bottom: 'es el verdadero SIDA' [AIDS is real]

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