«The body is a repository of marks», we are told at one point in one of Carlos Motta‘s visual essays, Lágrimas (2017). Many of the works of this Colombian artist speak about colonial and postcolonial marks, metaphorical scars on flesh and desire, indelible despite the passing of centuries. Jacques Derrida, for whom the concept of cultural «sign» or «scar» was so important, said that it is not possible to escape the Judeo-Christian tradition. Even the death […]