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For Pellón, exile was a moral commitment as much as a personal
circumstance. She was a steadfast advocate for the democratization
of Cuba and was dedicated to the freedom of political prisoners and
the defense of human rights. As an artist who understood the price
of freedom firsthand, her illustrations for Amnesty International
gave visual form to these convictions. In her canvases, exile is
almost never illustrated, but always embodied. Her figures rarely
settle within the frame, and in this way she anticipated by decades
conversations about diaspora and identity that occupy art today.

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