Retazo de aliento

Abstract

La comunidad retornada de El Salado, once años después de haber sufrido una de las masacres más sangrientas del conflicto armado colombiano, continúa reconstruyéndose desde lo cotidiano. Desde las cocinas, desde los patios, mujeres y hombres emprenden esta tarea de largo aliento, como una manera de rearticular los lazos comunitarios rotos por la violencia. Retazo de aliento es un video-performance que presenta un espacio de memoria delimitado por cortinas, aquellas que dividen las habitaciones en las casas del Caribe. Universo cotidiano de transparencias y opacidades, nos permite vislumbrar el devenir de la vida en medio de la desolación. (Texto tomado de la fuente).

Eleven years after being victim of one of the bloodiest massacres in the Colombian armed conflict, the community of El Salado continues to rebuild itself from their everyday life, the quotidian. From the kitchens and the yards, men and women take on this long-winded job, as a way to re-articulate the communitarian bonds broken by violence. retazo de aliento (remnants of breath) is a video-performance that presents a space of memory, confined by curtains, like those that divide the rooms in the houses of the Caribbean. These curtains allow us to peek; they also reveal and de-veal the inside out and the outside in; it only takes a small breeze, a puff, a single breath, to be able to foreshadow what is on the other end. The curtains connect realities, hide and guard that which breaks through in the everyday life: a daily universe of transparencies and opacities allow us to perceive the vicissitudes of life in the middle of the desolation.