Felipe Bedoya (Colombia, 1986)

Felipe Bedoya's work can be understood as a displacement in which he reflects on his idea of home: An island built from fragments that house memory, shelter loneliness and where the origin of the artist always lives as an aesthetic reference. He departs from his village to make the unknown visible: Social phenomena and biodiversity are the engine of migratory processes that dialogue with each other to highlight a specific reality. Bedoya reflects on vital practices that concern all living beings, ensuring that his work can be extrapolated and interpreted globally. He thinks of photography as the superposition of objects that make up an image, the artist decomposing the original record, classifying and selecting the elements that build the foundations of his narrative. In this an island ment , the image is stripped of its reproducible charge to be integrated into a plastic language of drawing, which seeks to reconfigure the original meaning of the pieces that make up his work. This exercise in understanding, isolating and translating reality, moves the digital to the field of the analog, inviting the viewer to question the technical nature of a work where the limits that frame it are mediated by emptiness, distance and silence.