Macondo

Named after the fictitious village of Gabriel García Márquez’s literary universe, Macondo centres itself as well in a fantasy, one created in the mind of those Latin-American’s that have migrated to Europe and have been resilient to let their culture die.

Named after the fictitious village of Gabriel García Márquez’s literary universe, Macondo centres itself as well in a fantasy, one created in the mind of those Latin-American’s that have migrated to Europe and have been resilient to let their culture die. After many years abroad, the memories that we hold precious in our minds, get distorted and embellished. We select what and how we want to remember. Inspired by magical realism, Macondo represents an idealized world, where things that are real seemed to be fake and constructed, while those that are fiction seem to be factual. The use of stereotypical colours and elements as well as the many stories of many immigrants, create a reverie-like scene, the Latin America of our dreams.

The captions are abstracts from the song Latinoamerica by Calle 13.