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"Portraits of a search"

"Portraits of a search" is a project developed by the research group Culture Violence and Territory, of the INER (Institute of Regional Studies - University of Antioquia), in alliance with ASFADDES (Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared), the first national organization victims of the State and paramilitarism that was consolidated in 1983 in Bogotá.

During the residency in March and April 2017, “Portraits of a Search” consolidated spaces for intergenerational dialogue between relatives of the disappeared and various groups and actors from the artistic, academic, urban, activist community, etc. to promote the construction of a fair memory, with a view to organizational strengthening and the exploration of history admitted as truth by society in general.

The residents affirm in their proposal: "In a context of peace building, transitionality and a post-conflict horizon, it is vitally important to review the political accumulations built by various victims' organizations in the city and in the country in general, since that we consider that it is from the recognition of these trajectories and the valuation of those political struggles that learning can be consolidated for the new generations in the work of building a country in peace ”true, statements that are in coherence with the theme of C3P research “New Relationships with Capital” and its approach in 2017: La Urbe, whose main interest is to nurture knowledge about the ideas, actions and configurations that redefine the way we operate in our environment; achieving it from the deepening of multiple variables, one of them, very broad and outstanding, is the identity that we establish thanks to the knowledge and information that we have at the individual and collective level, and the life projects that based on that "reality ”We develop.