ZURUMBÁTICO

  • Dates
    2016 - 2017
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait, Contemporary Issues, Documentary
  • Location Aracataca, Colombia

Zurumbático

Zurumbático is an endless journey to the place where “ One hundred years of solitude”, the literary work of the writer Gabriel García Márquez was born. A story full of extraordinary essence, contained in thousands of Latin American villages, roots of a gigantic empirical hemisphere, passionate, forgotten, fickle, violent, improvised and above all, happy.

Aracataca is the writer’s native town where the inspiration for his unique Macondo originates. This place and its surroundings, close to the Caribbean region of Colombia, is my starting point. The leitmotiv was the book, and the result, was a great series of unique and spontaneous images; an intimate process of self-exploration, poetic, magical, dreamy, ocasionally painful, charged with symbolism a nd enigmatic stories, connected with being a continent and that, for me, meant a rebirth as an individual who has nourished himself with that bleeding Latin American spinal cord.

Zurumbático is a tunnel of feelings, sensations, impressions and especial events, in which I enter and leave as I wish. Immersed in this dimension, I understood and reconfirmed that the unusual, the everyday, the comic, even the tragic, has no explanation, neither asked nor sought. It is what it is.

© Luis Cobelo - The end
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The end

© Luis Cobelo - Fantasy map
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Fantasy map

© Luis Cobelo - Abandonment of the body
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Abandonment of the body

© Luis Cobelo - Hold tight, even if it burns
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Hold tight, even if it burns

© Luis Cobelo - Backwards, nameless
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Backwards, nameless

© Luis Cobelo - Don´t ask me why, it scares me
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Don´t ask me why, it scares me

© Luis Cobelo - Nothing closes
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Nothing closes

© Luis Cobelo - Energy released, everything is going to be fine
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Energy released, everything is going to be fine

© Luis Cobelo - The santandereajn
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The santandereajn

© Luis Cobelo - Nine fights without dying
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Nine fights without dying

© Luis Cobelo - Gloria is in love
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Gloria is in love

© Luis Cobelo - Inmortal Goyo
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Inmortal Goyo

© Luis Cobelo - Palomino, the gravedigger
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Palomino, the gravedigger

© Luis Cobelo - Found little golden fish
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Found little golden fish

© Luis Cobelo - The center of the universe
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The center of the universe

© Luis Cobelo - That afternoon when I saw you in the yard
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That afternoon when I saw you in the yard

© Luis Cobelo - The love ( saved)
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The love ( saved)

© Luis Cobelo - Our most precious ornament
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Our most precious ornament

© Luis Cobelo - Don´t say my name, I will torture you beyond death
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Don´t say my name, I will torture you beyond death

© Luis Cobelo - The constellation of Luz
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The constellation of Luz

© Luis Cobelo - Love is a plague
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Love is a plague

© Luis Cobelo - Don´t ask, don´t find out, don´t do anything
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Don´t ask, don´t find out, don´t do anything

© Luis Cobelo - The mode
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The mode

© Luis Cobelo - Lalo, the monkey that guesses the dreams of humans
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Lalo, the monkey that guesses the dreams of humans

© Luis Cobelo - Two little fish per day
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Two little fish per day

© Luis Cobelo - El mello
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El mello

© Luis Cobelo - Melissa
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Melissa

© Luis Cobelo - We are creatures of habits
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We are creatures of habits

© Luis Cobelo - A glow
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A glow

© Luis Cobelo - Jessica
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Jessica

© Luis Cobelo - The eternal line
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The eternal line

© Luis Cobelo - Waiting to fly
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Waiting to fly

© Luis Cobelo - Just the head
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Just the head

© Luis Cobelo - The same room
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The same room

© Luis Cobelo - The cross of death marked on his forehead
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The cross of death marked on his forehead

© Luis Cobelo - Lucho, the eternal morrocoy
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Lucho, the eternal morrocoy

© Luis Cobelo - Tomasa
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Tomasa

© Luis Cobelo - NT
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NT

© Luis Cobelo - Life goes on
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Life goes on

© Luis Cobelo - The Ropero twins
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The Ropero twins

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