Inheritance

These drawings are part of a work in which I am interested in reflecting on that debate on the ruptures and continuities in the society of the American continent, after independence at the time of the Spanish colony in Colombia; in the work of art that documented and reaffirmed the interest in demonstrating the dominance of the territory, the identity, aesthetic and devotional aspirations of the Creole elites; of those aspects such as Christian doctrine and dogma that provided the guidelines for the ordering of the territory and the society of the new world.

I am interested in making a kind of loan or simulation of the looks that the different artists of the time had and trying to create a dialogue with those iconographies and contexts of the colony that interpreted that first era of modernity in the new world and that apparently do not today. It has changed a lot in many ways. Trying to reveal not only the remnants of the art schools and painters of the time, but also what we are today as a society in Colombia and the American continent in general.

Understand how from events such as the botanical expedition in Colombia the looks were transformed into more curious and exotic looks of the territory, they continue to tell the story today using symbolic and iconographic values as if it were an allegory to the past. Because more than understanding if art was transformed or if social expression systems prevailed, I am interested in that, in the act of recognizing the past, we recognize ourselves as the result of that rich and complex social process.