"Between 1994 and 1995, Eduardo Villanes carried out his first set of collaborative actions explicitly conceived as protesting against human rights violations. In his one-man show, Gloria Evaporada (Evaporated Glory) October 25, 1994, at the gallery of the School of Arts of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Villanes decided to focus on the Case of La Cantuta. Shortly before the exhibition, the unrecognizable remains of the disappeared had been returned to their families in cardboard boxes used to transport the "Gloria" brand of evaporated milk. Two video performances were shown in the main space as part of the installation."

"In 1995, in a furtive intervention on one of the walls of the Vía Expresa, a highway three hundred meters from the Plaza Grau, Villanes wrote the words "evaporados" ("evaporated") using cutouts from the evaporated milk cardboard boxes. He changed the phrase "evaporated milk" to "evaporated people". In another collective performance created by Villanes, people with evaporated milk boxes covered their heads and marched towards the Federal Congress on June 23, 1995. This was a protest against Amnesty Law 26479, which exonerated those who had violated human rights between 1980 and 1995, and set free all who had been previously sentenced. The law was never debated and was automatically approved." 

Text from the exhibition catalogue "Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000", El Museo del Barrio, 2008.