Between the boundaries

Bienal de artes FUGA (Bogotá, Colombia)

It would be unfeasible to calculate the number of absences left by a floor or a room with centuries-old origins. It would be absurd to count the handprints on the walls. The floor tiles and textures behind the furniture hold the moments and decisions of those who wore them down. A house is a body with skins, joints, and fluids. It, like everything, is impermanent and condemned to deterioration, to the abrasion of time, to the wound-cauterization-scar.

Memories and witnesses of absences are now revealed in the sanded wall, in the information blankets, and in the particles of fallen paint. The room is a fabric of past times that were hidden by dense layers of colors and wound-cauterization work. By deconstructing the space and reorganizing the concealed information, a historical continuity of the colonial house manifests, through the evidence of the material found beneath the paint and extracted from the treated wall.

The blankets make visible in their weaves the uninterrupted presence of a lived past. With thread, the connection of stories and absences interrupted by brushes, rollers, and spatulas is reclaimed. By reconnecting events, invisible and forgotten voices are revived. The space now invites one to enter its walls through a path between two boundaries: the tearing of a past and the weaving of an unfinished time.