Antimonumento +65
The anti-monument in 2023 | |
Location | |
| Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 19°25′44.0″N 99°9′51.3″W / 19.428889°N 99.164250°W |
| Designer | Anonymous demonstrators |
| Type | Antimonumento |
| Material | Steel, hard hats and coal |
| Height | 4.5 m (15 ft) |
| Weight | 1 t (0.98 long tons; 1.1 short tons) |
| Opening date | 18 February 2018 |
| Dedicated to | The victims of the 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster |
Antimonumento +65 is an antimonumento (anti-monument) near the Mexican Stock Exchange, on Paseo de la Reforma, in the borough of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. The installation features the number 65 and a plus sign, commemorating the sixty-five miners who died in the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster on 19 February 2006 in San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, Coahuila. Only two bodies had been recovered as of 2018.
The anti-monument was installed on 18 February 2018, the eve of the disaster's twelfth anniversary, as a demand for justice in response to the collapse and government inaction. The installation was not given an official name; organizers simply referred to it as Antimonumento.
The plus symbol in the sculpture is engraved with the names of the victims and the Spanish phrase A una voz, ¡rescate ya! (transl. 'With one voice, rescue now!'). The symbol also represents miners who died in similar incidents. The following year, activists placed a metal cage behind the sculpture containing sixty-three helmets buried in coal extracted from a Coahuila mine.