Sudarios / Shrouds

SHROUDS (Sudarios) is the result of multiple theoretical concerns, an infinity of technical quests and an observation of the world from a certain context. My decision to create this work comes from some questions which have remained from previous photographic series, but are the consequences of the same process which began with my series SILENCES (Silencios, 2004), which deals with survivors of the Second World War who live in Colombia. The women who serve as the models in SHROUDS were first-hand witnesses of acts of horror. They were forced to feel on their own flesh or in front of their own eyes that there is no difference between man and the most savage beasts of nature; or rather, that there is a difference and it is that we are the only species capable of mass murder and the only ones who do not adapt to our own kind (N. Timbergen, 1968). This work tells the stories of twenty women – victims, grief-stricken human beings who, as part of their torture, were forced to SEE the violence perpetrated against their loved ones and were left alive so that they would be witnesses to such horrors. But I would add the proviso that I am convinced that this series speaks of something which is timeless, universal and infinite.