Río que nace donde crecen las plantas cuyos frutos son usados como vasijas
Touring for a week the Southern region of Putumayo in Colombia, I couldn't help but think several times about the first verses of a poem by Lorca. Those who say:
'Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.'
At first I was amazed by the infinite shades of green and I immediately thought that doing all the work with analog cameras and black and white films would not have allowed me to evoke the chromatic richness of the territory and the indigenous and Afro communities that inhabit it. So, once again, I went back to the creative hybridism that has inhabited me for years and alternated different cameras to capture the hybridism that also inhabits the region.
I visited different ethnic groups that resist the onslaught of modernism by anchoring themselves to the traditions, the territory and the spirits that govern it. Spirits and forces that during centuries have learned to coexist with 'imported' beliefs, co-opted by communities through multiple processes of syncretism.
This series was shot in August 2023 and was commissioned by COSPE, an Italian NGO. It was funded by the AICS and the Italian Institute of Culture in Colombia and exhibited at Espacio KB in Bogotá.