dig up and talk
Juan Manuel Echavarria
Colombia
Unearthing and Talking is an itinerant exhibition that proposes an open discussion about the processes of artistic creation from the war in Colombia, its encounters with communities, and the participation of art and academia in these dynamics.
The visual artist Juan Manuel Echavarría, in collaboration with Fernando Grisalez, has spent twenty years investigating violence in Colombia through art. A short path for a war with such deep roots in time.
On this occasion, Unearth and Talk, visits the University of Caldas, with the works Requiem NN, a tribute to the victims of forced disappearance in a work developed for seven years with the adoption ritual of NN in Puerto Berrío, Antioquia and Silences, series photo about the village schools abandoned because of the war in Montes de María, Chocó and Caquetá.
Parallel to the exhibition, a cultural and academic schedule will be developed that will allow the meeting and exchange of ideas about these works and their relationship with art, culture and society.
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