ACADEMICA 08, exhibition.

MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO DE MEDELLIN (MAMM).

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The incredible events experienced in the mid-eighties and early nineties in Medellín city, and in particular the interesting Socio-cultural phenomenon of drug trafficking, which here will be given the importance of an aesthetics phenomenon, have derived today, twenty years later, in narrations that many of us hear and assume to be true; worn versions turned into mythical imaginary, re-constituted and painted, which have been forming a social and daily sediment until becoming completely visible: cosmetics appearances, manifestations of an era that is re-decorating or makeup itself, appearances that are present again in a strange heyday.