Publication: De las reliquias piadosas a las neorreliquias políticas: Estrategias para no olvidar del arte colombiano.
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Giraldo, Sol Astrid
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El cuerpo ausente que obsesiona hoy a los colombianos ya no es sólo
el de Cristo, sino el de las recientes guerras del país. Ese cuerpo que
desapareció por la violencia y por ello no se puede enterrar, impidiendo
que los duelos se lleven a cabo. En este contexto, algunos artistas
contemporáneos han acudido a estrategias relacionadas con el culto
ancestral de las reliquias católicas. Como entonces, parecería quererse
conjurar las ausencias a partir de lo más innegable: la presencia muda
de los detritos corporales. Así hablaríamos de una particular materia:
fragmentos corporales que funcionan como una suerte de neoreliquias
utilizada por artistas como D. Salcedo, J.M. Echavarría, J.A.
Restrepo, P. Bravo, R. Sandoval, C. Echeverri y E. Diettes. Sus obras
intentan tramitar duelos colectivos para poder seguir hacia adelante.
The absent body that obsesses Colombians today is not only that of Christ, as in the foundational times of Christianity, but that of the recent wars in the country. That body that disappeared in the jaws of violence and therefore can not be buried, preventing duels from being carried out. In this context, some contemporary artists have resorted to strategies related to the ancestral cult of Catholic relics. As then, it would seem to want to conjure the absences from the most undeniable: the mute presence of the corporal detritus. So we would talk about a particular matter: body fragments that function as a sort of neo-relics used by artists like D. Salcedo, J.M. Echavarria, J.A. Restrepo, P. Bravo, R. Sandoval, C. Echeverri and E. Diettes. His works try to process collective duels in order to continue forward.
The absent body that obsesses Colombians today is not only that of Christ, as in the foundational times of Christianity, but that of the recent wars in the country. That body that disappeared in the jaws of violence and therefore can not be buried, preventing duels from being carried out. In this context, some contemporary artists have resorted to strategies related to the ancestral cult of Catholic relics. As then, it would seem to want to conjure the absences from the most undeniable: the mute presence of the corporal detritus. So we would talk about a particular matter: body fragments that function as a sort of neo-relics used by artists like D. Salcedo, J.M. Echavarria, J.A. Restrepo, P. Bravo, R. Sandoval, C. Echeverri and E. Diettes. His works try to process collective duels in order to continue forward.




