Fernando Arias

Arias has dealt with subjective issues like sexuality, religion and their political connotations. During the MDE15, especially in the public sphere, he will show the risk of losing direction in the processes of urban transformation when the idea of knowledge as an engine for change gets weaker and the continent stands above the content, the form above the actual pursuit of knowledge. His work highlights an unprecedented use of newspaper libraries in Colombia: the video records the action of turning over the books on the shelves of the public library Biblioteca Pública Piloto and this image is accompanied by the sound of murmurs coming from visitors and librarians. Those murmurs are the whispers of the victims of the conflict who look for press images about the events in which they lost their loved ones. These images will be useful as official evidence against the Colombian state.