Lily Ester Rivas Labbé

«The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists» is an exhibition of more than 140 drawings by imprisoned artists from around the globe, including countries such as Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba. Featuring works produced over a roughly two-hundred-year period, the exhibition presents powerful evidence of the persistence of human creativity in the most inhumane of circumstances. The exhibition interprets the term “incarceration” broadly to mean any situation in which an individual is denied their freedom.