Embodied Memory, Spaces of Action

Autores/as

  • Miguel Rojas Sotelo Duke University

Palabras clave:

Colombia, memory entrepreneurs, Doris Salcedo, women activists, art and politics, victim narratives, public art, Colombian conflict, visual anthropology, radical aesthetics

Resumen

The increasing visibility of victim organizations and social leaders in Colombia allows micro-narratives of the long and complex conflict to challenge official records. Most of the suffering has been experienced by women, making them not only repositories of pain, grief, and suffering, but at the same time “memory entrepreneurs” (Jelin 2003). For the past several decades, Gloria Luz Gómez Cortés has led women collectives in search of their forced disappeared loved ones; visual artist Doris Salcedo has worked on a committed aesthetic of grief. Both of these activists have shone a light upon victims of the Colombian conflict. They have been collaborating on producing embodied objects and archives, relics, portraits, counter-monuments, and evento/actions, re-signifying spaces to preserve the sacredness of life under the worst conditions of violence.

Descargas

Publicado

2024-02-16

Cómo citar

Rojas Sotelo, M. (2024). Embodied Memory, Spaces of Action. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 21(2), 59–84. Recuperado a partir de https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2447

Número

Sección

Latin American Women Nurturing Memories