Gabriel García Márquez e Doris Salcedo: imagens da violência política na Colômbia

Abstract

The present dissertation problematizes the existing links between the non-fiction book Noticia de un secuestro (1996), authored by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, and the installation Plegaria muda (2012), by the sculptor Doris Salcedo. Starting from works that unveil the permanent scars left by the armed conflict in Colombia, considered a landmark in the sociopolitical field of Latin America throughout the 20th century, the aim is to investigate the rootedness of this violence in the cultural imaginary. This prompts the establishment of a historical memory in the face of barbarism and a consequent stimulus for creation in the fields of literature and visual arts. Once defined this scope, focusing on the creations of two Colombians haunted by political war, the possible distributions of the sensible (Rancière, 2009) cohabiting in their works are analyzed, as well as the gesture of understanding to legitimize proposed by Didi-Huberman (2018), and the space occupied by testimony in this journey. For this, we take as a basis devices from narrative analysis and image theory. Driven by the purpose of understanding to what extent interactions between text and visual are established in this context, the discussion aims to deepen the debate on its uses as tools for projection, reflection, and denunciation of the horrendous.