Aluvión: El perdón como acto revolucionario

Abstract

Is forgiveness a revolutionary act? This project started in March 2018 and it was written during the travels I have made throughout the country, with ideas and experiences fresh. The project intends to investigate several actions, exchanges, and experiences that, from a personal perspective, extend towards collective learning dynamics trough artistic sensitization. My hypothesis state that forgiveness is constituted as a reborn act from traces, cracks, ruins, and pain, which is an autonomous rebuilding of one’s own identity through catharsis, from chaos. Then, Can forgiveness be a revolutionary act due to its liberating, transforming and restructuring features? The installation is made of 62 soil tiles like the soil I brought from the serranía after every trip. Every tile has an I am statement from every participant that reveals only with rainwater or with the participation of the public, these tiles are accompanied by testimonies gathered in this 2 years of research, engraved by hand in the soil. is an interactive, autonomous revelation like the act of forgiving. This research was executed thanks to and with the inhabitants and ex-soldiers of FARC in the SER Space for education and reintegration Urías Rondón in La Macarena, Meta, together with indigenous from the Embera Chamí town hall and with the colleagues with whom I have worked in the field.