The Perquín Model

The Perquín Model is a collaborative art project that expands from creativity toward diplomacy, judicial concerns, and the demand for respect for social and human rights.

Claudia Bernardi’s Perquín Model humbly attempts to aid the rebuilding of communities that have suffered by proposing locally generated processes towards shared remembrance, cultural production and civic participation. 

These initiatives reject forgetting as a condition of peace. Instead, they position art as a social infrastructure that restores voice to those historically erased, anchors historical truth in physical space, and reframes mourning as a communal, forward looking act. In places where the war attempted to sever memory from meaning, these practices rebind them. Through the Perquin Model, Walls of Hope teaches us that justice begins not in the courts, but in the radical act of making and seeing a shared future where peace can grow.