
Accidentes geo-graficos
- Publisher
- Self-published
- Specifications
- Spanish / English
Supported by the Alliance Francaise of Bogota, the Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie in Arles and the DRAC-PACA creation grant
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023, Author Book Award
The work is inspired by a story handed down through generations of Afro-Colombians: in the time of slavery the maroons used their braids to communicate secretly the paths of escape towards freedom, mapping topographic references in their hair. Guided by the accounts of Afro-Colombian braiders, the artist brings together their traditional hairstyles and the landscapes historically inhabited by their communities, which are still resisting. The title takes a term for the reliefs of the earth, born of millennial collisions, and turns it on the strategies that oppressed people invent to find paths the oppressor cannot imagine.