A machete pelao is a journey through a leaden space. Rooted in silence and ambiguity, it moves through imagined memories of the Colombian conflict. I revisit a place that in my mind was both wondrous and beautiful and yet loaded with fears. As I follow memories and imaginaries through uncertain moments and apparently empty spaces, the gaze falls back on itself, over its control and limits. In an acknowledgement of the unrepresentability of certain pains, metaphor and imagination replace documentation in a re-construction of indeterminate memories. Photography’s own limits are form and substance to get close to the uneasiness of everyday life under the power of men inflated by violence and the structures that maintain them.
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