José Alejandro Restrepo

This project is related to the Medellín Supreme Court archives covering the first three decades of the twentieth century. Portrait photographs, crime scene sketches, pictures of weapons and descriptions made by legal experts and police officers, are part of these archives. Through different artistic practices they join other elements in order to present what Restrepo has called political anatomy and semiology of political violence in Colombia. Restrepo has used the figure of sacrifice as an inclusive element in previous works. It appears again to integrate heterogeneous narratives from different times and juxtaposed significant facts that exceed the simple collection and organization of elements belonging to an archive. His goal is to find strategies to be part of the phenomenon of violence in Colombia, its imaginaries and ideologies.