In Blood is a long-term project, divided into chapters, in which I tell family stories from four generations ago moving slowly to the present and my roots. The project seeks to cross the political zigzagging of the different generations of my family, showing how the anecdotes and family stories offer a narrative parallel to the official History.
In blood, Chapter 1: Toñí and the hacienda.
2014
The first chapter of the project IN BLOOD of 12 ink drawings as a sequence, which shows the story of Maria Antonia Fernandez, my great grandmother, and Octavio Fernandez, my great-great-grandfather. The story is the version narrated by my great uncle: Antonio Vaca. In this it is told how they work in a sugar distributor with the Eder Family and how they lose everything by an embezzlement with a cargo of sugar that went to Ecuador. Beyond the veracity of the narrative are the anecdotes and the characters, traversed by history.
Project selected Local Creation Prize Bloc 2014. Exposed in Lugar a Dudas, Cali. November 14 to December 29, 201
In the Blood, Chapter 2: Radical.
2016
In Radical, second chapter of the project In Blood, a liberal, radical and atheist character named Miguel Antonio Vaca mutilates his index fingers so as not to shoot a weapon; to avoid military service in the midst of the bipartisan violence that Colombia experienced in the first half of the 20th century. This story is starred by my great-granduncle and has been a familiar story that along with other stories in which the political intersects with the history of my family, make up the project In Blood.
For the Museum of Independence - Casa del Florero, Radical is presented in the exhibition hall with an installation that contains an animation, some sculptures and drawings arranged in five showcases, dialoguing with the historical objects in the museum.