ARTIST TALK WITH TATIANA ARISTIZÁBAL
BOOK PRESENTATION: EL CABALLERO DEL PÁRAMO
In collaboration with The Bronx Documentary Center
We were honored to welcome Tatiana Aristizábal Zuluaga to Retina, where she shared insights into her moving and deeply personal new photobook, El Caballero del Páramo (RAYA).
Tatiana Aristizábal Zuluaga is a Colombian artist and photographer whose work explores the complex relationship between land and identity, touching on themes of memory, resilience, and environmental fragility.
El Caballero del Páramo (RAYA) is her latest publication—an evocative and experimental work that reconstructs the story of her brother’s 2000 kidnapping by the ELN guerrilla during Colombia’s internal conflict. Through a powerful blend of expanded photography, family archives, biomaterials, and visual research, the book becomes a space of remembrance, resistance, and transformation.
This photobook is a journey between the personal and the collective, between private memory and a nation’s history marked by violence. Images taken between 2019 and 2024 are interwoven with historical documents, original letters her family wrote to her brother during his captivity, and documentary material. The project also incorporates image transfers onto biomaterials—an artistic gesture that brings the earth and the body into dialogue, creating an act of healing.
We’re grateful to Tatiana for sharing her work and process with us, and for creating a space of reflection and dialogue through photography.
The book, published by Raya Editorial, had its official launch on March 7th at Casa de Mono (Cali), with the participation of Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, editor at Raya Editorial, and Janeth Usam from Matiz Taller Editorial. El Caballero del Páramo has been presented in several cities and festivals, including Rome, Bogotá, and Cali, and is part of a broader project that explores new exhibition formats, installations, and co-creation with victims of the armed conflict.
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