Exposiciones Colectivas

From Nelson Mandela to La Paz

La Paz and Nelson Mandela are two peripheral neighborhoods of the Colombian Caribbean founded in Cartagena and Barranquilla from the invasion of vacant urban lands due to the rapid flow of displacements that caused violence in rural areas of the region and the country in the decades of the 60s and 90s. The struggle for land and the staggering of violence forced many families to invade, forcefully make a ranch and reinvent life on the edge of the cities of the region, so they grew organically and the urban struggle for access to social welfare, popularization of traditions and the economy of good faith. La Paz, founded in 1966 and Nelson Mandela in 1994, make up two clear examples of community resistance that for decades have digested exogenous violence and created others as a fundamental part of everyday communication and coexistence. On those edges is where you cross the street of two young artists such as Dayro Carrasquilla and Luis Mendoza, who were born, grew up and today work from there with projects that embody the weaknesses and subtleties of violence: Social cleansing, orchards of medicinal plants , the economy of the fiao and the gota a gota; they also let us invade the intimacy of a cultural fabric of beliefs that show “violence without causes”, pointed out by F. Fanon as any violent gesture that cannot be answered directly to whoever generates it, extends organically throughout its around. Both artists do not remove violence and find it cause, because they have experienced it as other forms of life. They make a visual narrative of a violence that kills the violence.

―Plataforma Caníbal.

Dayro Carrasquilla's, ‘Fragmentos’, thanks to all mothers, fathers, youth, community leaders, LGBT community and the New Colombia Corporation, who shared their testimony of life, especially to Enor Chaverra (1982 – 2018), for her permanent struggle. This work has the psychosocial support of: Mirza Lian Julio (Psychologist), Germán Torres (Social Promoter), Adela Correa (Community Leader)

Thanks to the connoisseurs of the green in Nelson Mandela: Fernando Carrasquilla, Willian Navarro, Luz Estela Martínez, Monica Mass, Jaqueline Mojica, Carmen Alicia Ortega, Edilsa Peña. Thanks to Natalia Mustafá.

Watch the video of the Exhibition De Nelson Mandela a La Paz ( in Spanish)