In 2001, a house in a small village was destroyed when it became the epicentre of a clash between armed groups. The house that once housed a family’s entire life was transformed into a place of death, causing them to abandon it. Twenty years later they have returned to it, but traces of violence remain in the space and above all in its inhabitants. Remembering and acknowledging oblivion, through different exercises to remember that interrupted everyday life, will be the only way to rebuild the house in order to be able to inhabit it again from life.
Cristian Hidalgo
A visual artist and filmmaker from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia interested in interdisciplinary creation-research processes.The concept of the home is central to his aesthetic and artistic exploration as a means to understand different notions of dwelling and the physical and symbolic ways in which individuals construct space.
The memory that the veil of denial has covered must gradually be ripped open and left exposed, compelling us to face the sadness of the past, whether through the silence of the present or the efforts of nursing the future. Main Home (2025) seeks to embrace those efforts, exploring and resonating with Ana’s diaries that…
