Bronze Deer
Camilo Aguirre
2013

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The beginnings of this project go back to 2011, when the artist migrates to Bogotá to live with his father, a former union member from the 1980s and 1990s. From the experiences of his father and his fellow unionists in Bogota and Cali, Aguirre begins to penetrate with his documents and stories that served as the base input for this exhibition. The artist rewrote, drew and painted these stories as a means to process the experiences of an earlier generation as he filled the missing details through imagination. This series of works starts from nostalgia imbricated to the Colombian union struggle of the late twentieth century and from the backwardness caused by the violent persecution faced by its protagonists in the attempt to lead the search for a more just society. Some of these stories are drawn as comics from testimonies, other are based on photographs extracted from private archives and animations were also made in order to build a personal story that is between the testimonial and the fictional to work on the family legacy left by these junctures in the political life of the country.