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Tatiana Aristizábal

Colombia

Biography

Tatiana Aristizábal Zuluaga is a visual artist and educator based in Cali, Colombia, and Sarasota, Florida. Her work explores memory, territory, and the body from an intimate and situated perspective, combining personal archives, experimental photography, and ecological practices. Her artistic practice focuses on the silences of the Colombian armed conflict, particularly regarding kidnapping, addressing these themes through a post-natural lens that connects the páramo ecosystems with mourning and symbolic reparation.
Her project El Caballero del Páramo, a work that intertwines páramo landscapes with intimate memories of kidnappings during the conflict, has been exhibited in Colombia, the United States, Mexico, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. She has received recognition from institutions such as the Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (IILA-FOTOGRAFIA) and Cali Foto Fest.
She is currently developing an artistic research project centered on moss as a symbolic vessel of memory, through which she has created a biomaterial (moss leather) used as a surface for printing and as a container of memory.

Project

El Caballero del Páramo is a project of intimate and ecological memory that emerged from my brother’s kidnapping on the highway between Cali and Buenaventura (km 18). Through reimagined family archives, photography, and a biomaterial made from moss (the “moss leather”), the work reflects on pain, silence, and symbolic healing. This living archive intertwines the body, the earth, and the image as a way of rewriting history based on personal and collective experience.

Festivals Collaborations

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