• Landscapes of affection. Thesis Work. Bachelor in Plastic Arts from the National University of Colombia in Medellín. 2003.
Collaborative art project that aimed to collect the view of the daily spaces of 6 young community leaders from 6 different zones of Medellin city; each leader received a camera and a notebook to record the most meaningful places for them and for the people of their neighborhoods, looking for times and modes of appropriation of public space in the different zones. The leaders acted as a "compass" to introduce me to their everyday life, marked by the location of their affections. From this experience I drew up a narrative and pictorial proposal in which I gathered my own perceptions of each "landscape of affection."
- Inner fire. 2001.Installation and performance. This project expresses the moving existence of homeless children, whose life is extinguished between sacohol vapor (highly toxic glue inhaled as a hallucinogen). Through a series of symbols as the fire caught in the bottles in which the sacohol is packed and photographs of the faces of children, consumed by the flames, this performance is a silent gesture of dissent.
• Boxed City. 2001.
Ephemeral construction of 5 x 5 x 1 mts., made with wooden crates, traditionally used in the Colombian market places to pack vegetables. This sculpture synthesizes a wall with a window, looking in vain to communicate both sides. The sculpture was located in the Plaza de Cisneros Medellin, now defunct, which served as a border between the buildings of the municipal administration and one of the largest recycling and tolerance zones of the city, known as Guayaquil, where residents still today communities of homeless people. This work participated in the Regional Salon XXX Artists Andean Zone 2001 and then was presented at the XXXVIII National Salon of Artists, Cartagena, 2002.
• Scars and Dreams. 2000.
Project funded by the Normal School of Copacabana with the support of the Pedagogical School of Hochschule, Heidelberg - Germany and the Gallery of the Colombo American Center in Medellin. It consisted of a socio-artistic approach to the reality of children and young people in the streets of Medellin. Through a series of workshops of photography, ludic and narrative creation, we collected oral testimonies, music and images made by the participants, which revealed everyday life, longings and tours for children and young people in the street.
• Hundred of hundreds. 2000.
Public art project. Under the phrase "hundred of hundreds"; on one hand I refer to the proliferation of informal work in Medellin. And on the other, to a game of language that remembers the trinkets stores of downtown at Medellin, which sells more volume in less price, under slogans like "3 in 500", "or 2 in 1000". This project involved the location and registration of a large number of hawker vendors, scattered in public space; and in the register of the various forms of vehicles or containers used for these people to move their products. After the inventory, I produced 100 postcards (including photographs and drawings) that were arranged in a place of high flow of people. During five days the postcards were gradually exhibited: the first day appeared "20 from hundreds", the second, "40 from hundreds", completing on Friday the number of "100 from hundreds" hawkers records.
• An arts cart. 2000.
Sound installation. This project includes the wall assembly of 5 wheels of carts and an audio that played the proclamation of the hawker vendors to offer their products. The wheels symbolize the paths of the vendors, who are supported in their carts to move during journeys of more than six hours. The audio track shows the ingenuity with which these people describe their offer and their particular way to advertise, which is known as "paging".
