«Señores» is an installation composed of two ceramic busts leaning against each other and superimposed, from which lie living plants. The figure represented is a man with a moustache and signs of military or diplomatic garb, a figure with a 17th or 19th century air resembling a national hero, a man of letters or a conquistador, an anonymous character, an amalgam of reproductions of statues concentrated in a recognizable body and therefore without a name.
The installation refers to a certain monumental and historical aesthetic, visible not only in Colombia but also in the western world, this series of white moustached gentlemen that flood squares and parks, traffic circles and school books, to whom, according to history, we owe our heritage, our language and freedom. Lords to put on and take off, male figures that continue to dominate our historical narratives and imaginaries, leaving in the shadows so many other parallel histories, that of women to begin with, that of the original peoples, but also the vegetable and animal histories.
The work refers to the change of paradigms and to the questioning of our relationship with institutions, with power and with a certain hegemonic history. These fallen lords, perhaps sent to be picked up, can now serve us in another way, no longer as a paradigm but as an object of use, as a container. The virile figure of the inverted and upturned hero frees a space that can now be used to store and to sow new life. The principle of the installation is that it adapts to the context in which it is displayed, as well as to the local climate and vegetation.
