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From My Own Culture to the Appropriation
Cartagena, Colombia · Visual Work · 2021
This visual essay reflects on the tension between desire and duty, and on how identity is shaped through recognition by others. It begins from the artist's own cultural baggage as a way of surviving and interacting with the world, arguing that both self and environment are transformed through that exchange. What starts as something personal becomes shared and altered collectively, blurring the line between the intimate and the popular.
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Opening gesture
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
The sequence begins from the artist’s own cultural position, but it does not remain private for long. The images trace a movement in which identity is negotiated publicly, reinterpreted by others, and absorbed into wider visual codes.
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
As the series unfolds, what appears most clearly is the instability of authorship and ownership. Desire, duty, and performance overlap, making culture appear not as something fixed, but as something constantly re-enacted and appropriated.
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Shared afterimage
Cartagena, Colombia · 2021
Closing sequence
When the personal becomes collective image
The final image leaves the essay in an unstable zone between belonging and transformation. Rather than separating the intimate from the popular, it shows how cultural forms are continually recast through circulation, desire, and collective re-use.
Cartagena, Colombia · Visual Work · 2021
