Supervivencias – 2012 – ingles

It happens in the night horizons of the Colombian countryside. The territory has been undone in the non-place of war, and the house, which was at its center, as well. Privacy, intimacy, rootedness succumb to the invasion of external violent forces. It plunges into the labyrinths of the unseen and the unnamed. Of doors that close and open, endless corridors, inscrutable corners. And, finally, an invasion of ghostly presences that overflow it. The house no longer unites, protects, limits or protects. The territory has been undone in the non-place of war, and so has the house, which was at its center. Privacy, intimacy, rootedness succumb to the invasion of external violent forces.

Clemencia Echeverri’s decentered image emerges from this zone, from these chinks, from these silences, to reflect on what is not seen despite the excess of visibility, on the vertical and deep forces of the layers of memory, on the charged present, on the impossibility of rest in anxious times. It is the reverse of the brilliant media fanfare, the counter-narrative of the documentary and the news, from a perspective that moves away from light, clarity, immediacy, and dives iconoclastically into the blind labyrinths of the unseen and the unnamed. There where a dense space is unfolded, curdled by time. The territory has been broken physically and mentally, how to make the new map?

Sol Astrid Giraldo, philologist