Empty Baggage [Equipaje Vacío]

Installation and images

Empty Baggage is an installation piece made in different locations in Colombia, South America, a country whose population has undergone mass displacement due to internal violence. The work captures, through photography, the sites that have been destroyed and abandoned as a consecquence of conflict, as well as the inhabitants of these places, who, having been forced to flee their homes, years later return to the same sites and try to rebuild their lives.

In addition to these photographs, found objects are also animportant part of the piece. These objects were collected at the same abandoned sites and photographed in the studio. These studio photographs were printed as posters and pasted on city walls in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital and a city with an enormous population of refugees. Further, the objects themselves were exhibited as an installation piece that alludes to the basic human rights that these refugees lose upon having to flee their homes; water, food, land, hope.


Librada Escorcia Fuentes, displaced Chinulito Sucre.
Photo in the permanent collection MAC Bogotá


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