Negatives

Abstract

Poetics and politics of peace, generation of binational art: Colombia-Mexico is a research project in the arts, which aims to: (i) explore, intervene and activate the photographic archive and newspaper material of the Mexican political analysis magazine Proceso , as well as existing photographic and videographic collections on the Internet; (ii) generate pieces, through dialogue with specialists and researchers in human rights and conflict resolution, and (iii) carry out interventions in the public space of Bogotá and Monterrey, through the delivery, fixation or projection of short phrases, with the purpose of purpose of reflecting on the notion of peace and its multiple horizons of meaning. Negatives is a set of pieces made by cutting and correlating newspaper material. These are recurring images in the press: members of the military, politicians before the media, citizens turned into a collective, victims who demand the presence of their loved ones, and patriotic and commemorative events. The superimposition (distortion) of these images and the texts that accompany them, redimension these realities and propose new layers of meaning. Negatives makes use of one of the particularities of the language present in the project, called the collision of meanings, which consists of relating images that come from different symbolic contexts, through compositions that use association or formal and conceptual contradiction. Such unions allow you to explore the limitless angles of a subject. In this project I have combined images, videos, audios, and I have also covered —visually— the silhouette of some elements with others, causing similar effects.