The latest work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo – an anti-war memorial built using the melted down metal of 37 tonnes of weapons – was unveiled on Monday, December 10.

Known as 'Fragments', the monument pays tribute to the lives lost in the country's civil war, which left 260,000 dead and over 7 million displaced. It is being featured at a gallery space a block from the presidential palace in Bogota.

“The idea was to take the weapons which have caused so much pain and turn them into something useful,” Salcedo said to the Guardian.

37 tons of weapons returned and voluntarily delivered by the Farc allowed this work to be carried out, in addition, a group of women victims of sexual violence helped to forge a story that allows people to know and take something from it.

The weapons were converted into 1,300 metal plates that cover 800 square meters of a 19th century colonial house in Bogotá, which is adorned by a black floor that tells thousands of stories on each of the tiles.