Memorias Comunes/ Common Memories are points of view inside of the collective memories. A bet to offer a critical look on how to build the narratives of the past knowing that everything happens, everything changes, nothing remains. Except our memories, what we remember and do not want to forget. With this space we seek to recognize how the discourses of memory are being produced but also to produce new stories that respond to the needs of other narratives, of other ways of expressing ourselves, of relating and of lasting. It is the possibility to explore what are the memories, understanding this space for reflection on the transformative dimension and strength with which we link. In short, it is an encounter with living memory, shared and produced in common.
Text: Elisa García Mingo Photografhy: LolaMora Zomo Newen. Stories of life of Mapuche women in their struggle for indigenous rights is not just a book, but an act of memory, a discursive movement destined to reclaim spaces for circulating in the public space stories that were never narrated: those of many women involved in the […]
Text: Óscar Ulloa Calzada Being helpless by an earthquake is a fact, eating the helplessness is an act. Between fact and act, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, expanded the territory of memory to stay away from oblivion. Here is the story of how a Mexican community has sought to overcome the opprobrium since September […]
Text: Laura Langa Martínez Photografhy: Ariel Arango Prada Silence. Neglect. Loneliness. All the words that flow and do not flow are pierced by pain and rage. On the road to Monteloro, Barbosa (Antioquia), on the evening of June 27, 1998, a group of paramilitaries assassinated six people with abusive confidence. Destructive cruelty. Two decades later […]
Text: Laura Langa Martínez Photografhy: Ariel Arango Prada Oscar was assassinated by the Colombian army and they made him pass as a “criminal killed in combat”. His body was buried as unidentified, NN. A state crime. A crimes against humanity. A decade later his family returns to the place where everything happened to uncover the […]
The verb “remember” died, not only do we not hear but we stop remembering to memorize, just repeat! In a world that deafened the sound of memories and where a few survive by remembering -thinking since their existence- even though others try to silence them. Go to Memorias Comunes