La Toma "The Siege".

"At dawn all was desolation and ruins. Amid the rubble lay the incinerated remains of hostages and guerrillas, their weapons, also calcified, beside them. Few of the bodies retained their human form. The air exuded an unbearable, penetrating stench, record of the destruction of human life."Report of the Special Inquiry Commission Report on the Palace of Justice.



By definition a crack is the split of a surface, the space where things separate. Metaphorically cracks, fissures and fractures represent the scars we carry in our skins, memories or hearts. This installation is my gesture to the failure of the Colombian state to bring justice to the 94 casualties and the families involved in the Siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota in 1985. I was six years old when this tragedy happen. I lived with my family a few blocks away from the Palace of justice, I can remember the sound of the guns and the color of the sky as the horizon glowed when the building was burning down. How is it possible that 25 years after the events only one out of the dozens of people responsible for the massacre was brought to justice?

The cracked and broken piece of glass being projected onto the wall.

The projection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCihsLwxOWI