They say the world is changing… but they are not. They are still there, just as they were hundreds or even thousands of years ago. They observe us, undisturbed, perhaps with curiosity, although their gaze is really more of empathy and compassion. And we are there, in awe of a people who come from an …
An homage to the Misak culture of the Cauca Department in Colombia, “These drawings evoke the indigenous thought of the Misak, children of the downpour, children of water. In my conversations with them I have understood that they are the protectors of the paramos, of water, and they look after the mountain and the high-altitude …
In this project (yet to be exhibited), the artist worked for three years with forty Coreguaje indigenous people who had been displaced from a reserve in Caquetá because of violence from illegal armed groups, the recruitment of minors and fights over land for coca crops. The idea was to work with families in Bogotá making …
A collaborative show with artist Luis Fernando Roldán. The project used a game of chance to decide, chaotically but according to certain rules or guidelines, where to plant a tree for each victim of violence in Bogotá in 1997. There were 7,800 victims that year, and 7,800 trees to be planted in Bogotá, according to …
These photos are part of the artist’s photographic archive from her early years in Paris, where she did set design and production for photographers like Mario Testino, Ruvén Afanador and Mads Morgensen for publications from Casa Editorial Rizzoli in Milan and Hachette Filipacchi in Paris. Since 1999, Ana has taken a great interest in the …
In this project, the artist worked with a group of six soldiers wounded in combat by anti-personnel mines and explosives. She held workshops for “memory and reconstruction” in the “Batallón de sanidad” (Health Battalion) and afterwards developed a work based on the images and experiences that the soldiers, now blinded by anti-personnel mines, found they …