In this series of paintings, the mountain—based on the Cerros de Mavecure, Guainía—is established as an archetype of permanence, as a symbolic image representing stability, that which does not easily dissolve.

Beyond its geographical character, the mountain becomes a visual and conceptual axis that supports a series of suspended elements: snails, clouds, felines, snakes, kites. These presences function as calls or messages that become signs, omens, or apparitions. By not being in their natural place, they become open signs, beyond the obvious.

The flat aesthetic, close to naive and ceremonial language, and the intentional use of color construct a visual system in which form and color connect with emotional atmospheres. These works do not represent a landscape; they transfigure it into a state of suspended contemplation. In this gesture of suspension—of time, space, bodies—an opening is hinted at: the elements are frozen, but they are also expansive.

(Text by Camila Botero)