Project
Pesca Milagrosa
Pesca Milagrosa is the name given by Colombian guerrillas to suddenly erected roadblocks on national motorways. There they choose which of the people stopped will be kidnapped with aid of a computer system that researches the victim’s financial capabilities.
Pesca Milagrosa takes this inhumane roulette game as a point of departure. The source photographs for this installation represent faces of the victims of forced disappearances in The Americas. These photographs were digitally appropriated and manipulated to abstraction.
“Los desaparecidos”, (the disappeared) have been collectively transformed into a political construct, which has deformed the representation of these individuals. “Pesca” means “Fishing” and “Milagrosa” means “Miraculous”.
