Arquitecturas del corazón
Video Installation. (2015)
2 tables with barbed wire, wool of sheep and machetes.
90 X 90 x 1,10 cm and 1,30 x 60 x 1,0 cm
Barbed wire with bonsai.
Kirsch Gallery, Hawaii. USA
Arquitecturas del corazón is a project of creation in the arts, in which an approach was made to an invasion neighborhood called Bello Oriente in the city of Medellín. This neighborhood began to be formed 16 years ago with people from peasant, Afro-Colombian and indigenous populations of the country. Bello Oriente is on the border between the city and the countryside, bordering the rural area of the Santa Elena district. Its inhabitants undertook a community work that has served to observe how people settle again, after living displacement processes, how they look at their past from the closeness with nature and how through the vegetable gardens they continue to have affective ties with it, in the midst of the hostility manifested by the city that receives them.
Objects of daily use that generated meeting points between people were taken, for example tables where people gathered to talk after working in the community garden, these were intervened with barbed wire, to talk about those "flashpoints" around the food, alluding to those silences that keep the displaced people, many of them former owners of farms in their places of origin to which they could never return. Tables and objects such as machetes were intervened with wool in an exercise of restoring hardness with a new fabric, covering a sharp and cold object with warmth and reflecting on violence and regeneration. creating a metaphor of the warm life and the cold death.
