Conflicto oscuro: perspectivas a través del crudo.

Abstract

This research-creation was born from the memories that inhabit my regional consciousness of the Colombian armed conflict in the Arauca region and its relationship with the exploitation of hydrocarbons by multinational oil companies. Those memories that I have kept since my early childhood, and that translate into vivid and brutal images of what has been silenced through "progress", made me want to delve into the depths of my native territory to, from there, explore what for so many years has been one of the main causes of suffering of the inhabitants of the Sarare region: oblivion. Yes, the oblivion hidden in the subtle, in the everyday. Oblivion and indifference towards that which neither speaks nor 5 shouts, that which has become normal to destroy in the name of oil royalties and armed struggle: the natural and human ecosystems. Through various tours over the Sarare region, remembering all the experiences in the course of my life in this land, I decided to undertake the search for the record that, through the lens and my own experience, can make known what we live, feel and suffer here. On that line, the results of my field exploration work allowed me to build an artistic proposal that sensitizes the viewer of what resides in the oblivion of the Sarare region, understanding that, only through art, not only is articulated to the opening of a new and improved social structure, but it opens perspectives of phenomenological appropriation impossible to access from other human disciplines.