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  • Clemencia Echeverri, Deserere, 2022, thirteen-channel video installation, color, sound, 23 minutes 19 seconds.

    Clemencia Echeverri, Deserere, 2022, thirteen-channel video installation, color, sound, 23 minutes 19 seconds.

    Clemencia Echeverri

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    Since the mid-1990s, Clemencia Echeverri has addressed a range of sociopolitical conditions plaguing Colombia in complex video installations. Her most recent effort, Deserere, 2022, the result of two years of work, responds to the 2004 Bahía Portete massacre, in which paramilitaries assassinated twelve people, including four women, and “disappeared” two girls in a deadly effort to gain control over the local port. The victims were social activists from the Indigenous Wayuu population who were attempting to protect the land their people have long inhabited. Roughly four hundred families were also

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