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Bandages-Bullets #4 is part of Baptist Coelho’s ongoing multimedia series Bandages-Bullets, which investigates the relationship between bandages and bullets—both symbols of war. In 2015, during the artist’s solo exhibition thread by thread at LAMO in Leh, North India—located approximately 200 km from the Siachen Base Camp—a little girl, upon seeing gauze bandages in the artwork Rose #1, remarked that they looked like cartridges. Her words revealed how trauma and conflict shape perception, turning symbols of healing into markers of destruction. This moment deeply impacted the artist and became the catalyst for the series.

Bandages-Bullets #4 was first exhibited as part of the artist’s solo exhibition, It still hasn’t ended at Bâtiment IV, Esch-sur-Alzette, from 30 May to 14 June 2024. The exhibtion was supported by University of Luxembourg, Department of Social Sciences.