Artist Pedro Reyes has worked with 6 musicians to upcycle 6,700 discarded weapons into working musical instruments as part of a project to bring awareness to gun violence in Mexico.

Mexican Artist Pedro Reyes wants to encourage questions about the availability of deadly weapons, so he turns guns into shovels and most recently, unique musical instruments.

When the artist Pedro Reyes says “I believe anything can become material for art,” he truly means anything. To date, he’s turned guns into musical instruments, proposed crickets as an ...

For the project titled 'Disarm', Reyes said he was able to choose his instruments from about 6,700 guns that were turned in or seized by the army and police in Ciudad Juarez, a city of about 1.3 ...

Tabish Khan Weapons As Musical Instruments: Disarm At Lisson Gallery Pedro Reyes, Imagine (Double Psaltery), 2012. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery Pedro Reyes, Imagine (Double Psaltery ...

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes has turned firearms into musical instruments for his Lisson Gallery show, Disarm. He hopes making a noise about the violence in his homeland will help put a stop to it ...