Economía de lo mismo: industria colombiana para copias de un negro intenso

Abstract

The project is a critical reflection on the relationship between original and copy in art, focusing on the uncritical adoption of foreign educational, aesthetic, and cultural models within the Colombian context. Through repetition, copying, and the manipulation of school and industrial materials, the project questions how these imported paradigms shape identity and reinforce systems of cultural dependency. Drawing from personal childhood experiences, the artist explores the intersection of art, education, and politics to challenge linear, Eurocentric narratives and propose more fluid and contextually relevant understandings of artistic creation.

The work is grounded in conceptual art theory, particularly the ideas of Sol Lewitt, Joseph Kosuth, and Luis Camnitzer, incorporating notions such as tautology, repetition, and resignification. The project positions art as a political and pedagogical tool capable of subverting institutional structures through appropriation, symbolic recycling, and critical intervention in the flow of information. It culminates in an exhibition that reinterprets conceptual phrases and educational imagery, turning them into poetic acts of resistance, and advocating for an ethically engaged artistic practice rooted in local socio-political realities.