Jose Alejandro Restrepo
Colombia
Presented by the Bank of the Republic
The artist José Alejandro Restrepo produced one of the most powerful and moving works of Colombian contemporary art: the installation Musa paradisiaca. He has been interested in the way in which historical narratives are constructed: who makes history, whose service is the narrative, how it is told, and with what images reality is constructed. Most of his works are based on extensive and in-depth documentary research, many of them in historical archives, books, documents, drawings, engravings, and photographs.
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