in the beginning was the sea
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Dates2018 - Ongoing
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Author
- Topics Contemporary Issues, Fine Art
- Locations Puerto Colombia, Cartagena, La Guajira, Barranquilla
In the beginning was the sea engages in a search for visual imaginary of mixed mostly contradictory stories and realities from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with the aim of revealing the signs of coloniality that surround them.
Modernity is a set of tales from which we, Latin Americans and Caribbean, mostly get what is left. The tail of the progress hits us leaving behind erased memories, rivers of plastic, plates full of sand. And still, we, here, in these lands of former and new colonial treasures, haven’t learned to look at ourselves sincerely, genuinely.
Praising the images that foreign eyes make of us, we copy their exoticism, objectification, sexualization; we are exotic to ourselves, we are a fiction to ourselves. How can we, Caribbean, visually articulate the mixtures, contradictions and encounters that are constantly influencing our many identities and stories? What images can we imagine and create that dare to counter-narrate fixed repeated narratives about ourselves?