presencia
presencia is a graphite drawing on cotton paper, approximately 25 meters long. The drawing hangs from the ceiling at various points, inhabiting the space alongside the people, resembling a ghost or a presence that undulates between the ceiling and the floor. On the night of September 9, 2020, 13 people were killed by the police in Bogotá during the strike protests. That same week, the bodies of protesters were found floating in rivers in different parts of the country. This drawing is composed of ghostly figures that, together, weave a river without water, without life, like a dry river. The graphite used to create this drawing is an allotrope form of carbon that makes life on Earth possible, it's the same chemical element, but lifeless, less complex, less free.
presencia was exhibited at: La Redada, Bogotá, Colombia, 2022
Minus Zwei, Vienna, Austria, 2021
NADA Lokal, Vienna, Austria, 2021
