Dear Friends Outside of Colombia
Dear friends outside of Colombia is a current and intimate collective portrait that seeks to express - in different ways - in front of the camera how some Colombians feel about the violence that is occurring in our city, in our country, after several days of experiencing the protests by the national strike and the state of repression by the State and other agents.
It will be presented as a collection of video art pieces, created by artists throught the national strike that began on April 28th, 2021 and is ongoing.
THE ARTIST:
Melissa Saavedra Gil is a Colombian audiovisual director and creator. Her work has been linked both to the cinema and to different museums in the country. Her first film "El Espacio Me Huele a Hierbas" (2014) was developed as a guerrilla film and participated in the Ethnographic Film Festival of Ecuador, then, on request, "Mi Río Yurumanguí "(2017) was born, which was exhibited in the International Documentary Exhibition of Bogota. In 2018, she was part of the team at the Museum of Memory of Colombia where she created different pieces for their own collection, among which a large installation called Corpórea (2018). Melissa is interested in hybrid universes that defy real assumptions.
