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 of centuries-old origins. It would be absurd to count the touches of hands on the walls. The tiles on the floor and the textures behind the furniture guard 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.

The memories and witnesses of absences are now shown on 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 under dense layers of colors and cauterization of wounds. By deconstructing the space and reorganizing the veiled information, a historical continuity of the colonial house is revealed, through the evidence of the material found beneath the paint and extracted from the treated wall.

The blankets make visible in their weavings the uninterrupted nature of a inhabited 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 borders: the tearing of a past and the weaving of an unfinished time.