As a result, she challenges the inevitability of human disappearance after death by turning her fear of it into a fascination and artistic preservation.
For years, citizens had feared any major show against the government, which has long been accused of human rights abuses, disappearances, and harsh crackdowns on dissent.
"The real issue since 1997 is that people have been afraid to speak up because they are afraid of weapons," Mahouele said, referring to the human rights abuses, disappearances, and harsh crackdowns on dissent that the Sassou Nguesso regime has been accused of committing over the years.
The organisation, says its director-general, Kathryne Bomberger, is thinking about future work that might include searching for the victims of not only conflict but natural disaster, enforced disappearance, human trafficking – and migration.
Human rights groups said disappearances nearly tripled, to 116, in the first year of the new state government.
In Colombia, victims of forced disappearances include human rights defenders, trade unionists, Afro-Colombian and indigenous people and poor rural farmers and their families.
Unofficially, outside the capital, all the trappings of the state of emergency - curfews, internment, search-and-destroy operations and, according to human rights organisations, torture, disappearances and summary executions - continue.
Or you can use it to monitor for wildlife in rural areas, or to capture evidence of human rights violations and disappearances," Lee wrote.
His report also described "widespread and systematic violations of human rights" including enforced disappearances and using food to control people.
It said "serious human rights violations" including disappearances, torture, summary killings and threats to free expression persisted in Sri Lanka, despite the end to the bloody separatist war with Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
