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Marcos Ávila-Forero
France / Colombia, b. 1983

Marcos Ávila-Forero France / Colombia, b. 1983

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marcos Ávila-Forero, Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marcos Ávila-Forero, Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marcos Ávila-Forero, Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marcos Ávila-Forero, Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marcos Ávila-Forero, Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018

Marcos Ávila-Forero France / Colombia, b. 1983

Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Installation, standard 120 x 80 cm. EPAL transport pallets, sawdust from sawn pallet.
240 x 240 x 12 cm.
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Marcos Ávila-Forero, La sucursal del paraíso, 2010
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Marcos Ávila-Forero, La sucursal del paraíso, 2010
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Marcos Ávila-Forero, La sucursal del paraíso, 2010
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Marcos Ávila-Forero, La sucursal del paraíso, 2010
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Marcos Ávila-Forero, La sucursal del paraíso, 2010
The series Estibas displays several pallets —structures originally conceived for the transport of merchandises— with poetic images carved into their surface. These pallets —halfway between the artisanal object and the...
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The series Estibas displays several pallets —structures
originally conceived for the transport of merchandises— with poetic images
carved into their surface. These pallets —halfway between the artisanal object
and the industrial object— do not exist anymore as a structure to transport goods,
but as the substrate of historical narrative. The engraved representations illustrate
the Colombian rural context, inspired by photographs and archival material that
relate both to peasant economies, and to historical moments of the armed
conflict that has transformed said peasants into guerrilla-fighters. The object
is transformed into a giant stencil. In front of each pallet, the sawdust
produced while carving it reproduces its own image, as many times as the
available sawdust allows. These stylized representations lay out the account of
a unique story, which repeats itself in a mechanical fashion, diluting little
by little the image and its original reference, as to suggest an alternative
account of their historical roots.

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