Accidental Beauty (2013)
The starting point for this series is an in-depth investigation of Los Martires, a district of Bogota. The area is full of contrasts due to drastic changes the city has undergone in the last century. One of the landmarks of the area is a church called Voto Nacional, dating back to 1916, which commemorates the consecration of Colombia to the Sacred Heart of Jesus after the end of a civil war. The Voto Nacional church is at the epicenter of a turbulent zone, where there is a military battalion, a public school and a tolerance area for the sale and consumption of drugs, nicknamed “The Bronx.” The series consists of works that were born from the functional and symbolic recontextualization of objects found in the area and images taken throughout the experience, that seek to synthesize formerly neglected anthropological, aesthetic and historic aspects.