A wall can have many meanings. Historically, they have stood as dividing surfaces, as objects that denote a limit and also, as constructions that invite mystery, because we know that behind them is something hidden, something that is not within the reach of the eyes. "The wall of San Bernardo del Viento" was born as an exercise of observation of the wall next to the house where I spent a good part of my childhood as well as the people who went by it. This exercise awakened countless memories that I decided to capture in the form of texts, drawings and juxtapositions of images on photographs that I had taken in previous years. I have always thought of the wall as a mobile being. For this reason the image is not always the same although it can be easily noticed that they were taken in the same place. These images end up being the canvas where I dared to tell fragments of my personal story. Recreating them became recreating something in me, and in the exercise of dusting off the past, part of a social subconscious glimpsed as is the case of missing persons, psychological violence against women and the simple daily life of a poor and forgotten town of the Caribbean coast of Colombia. "The wall of San Bernardo del Viento" is an exercise of observation where the wall ends up being a resource for creation and where one after the other we dissolve the space and turn it into nothing and in turn, into a world of possibilities.
1. The work can be seen spontaneously, however, the order of the images is very important, as well as the dialogues that appear in it. On the other hand, each photo is related to the next but also communicates from the color -they are 4 lines of color- or the absence of it. In total there are 24 photographs.
2. Lines: The green line brings back bicycle memories.
The red line is a trace of my personal history.
The black and white line evokes the world of those persons that disappeared due to violence in Colombia.
And the line of multiple colors refers to the daily life of the town: animals, bolis (a kind of ice cream), various characters, among others.
3. The photos are taken in two films: Ilford Pan 400 and Ilford Pan 100.
Work made of: 24 collages (analog photography, text, drawing)
Location: San Bernardo del Viento, Colombia
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