Erika Diettes

Erika Diettes (Colombia, 1978) es Artista Visual y Comunicadora Social. Su trabajo se sirve de todas las herramientas de las que dispone – artísticas, investigativas, antropológicas – dando como resultado una condensación de imagen, mensaje y proceso: un “trípode” que es el soporte conceptual y formal de todas sus obras. Erika Diettes ha expuesto en significativos espacios como el Museo de Bellas Artes de Houston, el Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), el ExTeresa Arte Actual (Ciudad de México), El Museo Nacional de Colombia, y en distintas instituciones en Estados Unidos y Europa. En 2019, Diettes vino a Liverpool gracias al Consejo de Artes de Inglaterra y el Municipio de Liverpool para montar su inspiradora exposición Sudarios en La Catedral de Liverpool, y conectar con exiliados, migrantes, artistas, y activistas por derechos humanos. 

En el marco del festival Culture Unconfined del 11-15 mayo 2020, la Universidad de Liverpool ha invitado a Erika Diettes a inaugurar su galería virtual en Un Museo para Mí para para apoyar el trabajo de La Comisión de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición, con exiliados colombianos en Reino Unido

Erika’s work is dedicated to each one of the families who, with great courage and generosity, have shared testimony of their most painful and treasured memories, through these works of art.

Sudarios (shrouds)

A Museum for Me invites you to encounter this unique exhibition, where truth inhabits spectacular form and surroundings. Staged at the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool in 2019 as part of its international tour, Sudarios invades the mind and soul, transferring personal testimony to collective consciousness. Diettes’ work is incontrovertible evidence of the crucial role that culture has to play in truth-telling and recognition.

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Relicarios (reliquaries)

Walk with Diettes through Relicarios, a three-dimensional work, that at once conveys both the intimate, intricate, and delicate detail of personal grief, love and memory, and the unfathomable scale of loss in Colombia.  Relicarios is recognition writ large in tiny detail on the national and international stage. Watch and listen as Erika Diettes takes us to her exhibition Relicarios

Río Abajo (Drifting Away)

Faced with the forced disappearance of persons inside a complex political conflict, Diettes constructs a poetic image in which clothing appears floating on the water, transporting us to the corpses that are thrown into the river to be vanished. The piece becomes a type of contemplation on the role of rivers in Colombia as a geographical space that evokes death, and furthermore, contributes to the mourning process of the victims as these images symbolically rescue the presence of a body they have not been able to find.

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