Ausencias - Francisco de Paula Santander

Ausencias - Francisco de Paula Santander is a piece that is part of the series of National Drawings Series. This piece develops an approach to Colombia´s National History and its relationship with Art in order to review critically the political reality of the country. The appropriation of this Portrait suggests a new way of reading its values in the present. This allows the piece to establish an update for this particular context built through centuries, through textures and luminosities. The idea behind this piece is to generate an image using the perforations, pointing out the perspective and the relative place of the observer.

In this sense the disappearance of the sign is proposed, but a possibility of rereading and organizing based on the new current referential framework is suggested. In this way, the frame of the image is maintained, but the symbol proposes certain structural voids that the viewers can observe, making them aware of that Colombia that exists in the present.