Collective sowing in favour of reconciliation

On 21st October, a performance in the park of the Estació del Nord in Barcelona constituted the closing act of the project “Cuerpos gramaticales”, through which ICIP intended to complete a work of memory and reconciliation with women who had been victims of the Colombian conflict. The artistic performance consisted of sowing thirty women on the floor, among them Luz Marina Bernal from the group Mothers of Soacha (2012 ICIP Peace in Progress award), whose son was killed by the Colombian army in the year 2006 in the case known as “false positives” of extrajudicial executions. The sowing, which lasted four hours, was a process of collective and individual catharsis, as well as a reflection on the violence they had experienced.
The initiative, created by the collective Agroarte of the Commune 13 of the city of Medellin (Colombia), is part of the project “Strategies of Memory, Truth and Reconciliation of Colombian women abroad”, organised in Barcelona by ICIP, with the collaboration of Casa Amèrica Catalunya and the support of the city of Barcelona.
The final act of “Cuerpos gramaticales” has been preceded by several training sessions during the months of September and October, in which the participants had been working on memory and reconciliation through different artistic means of expression: dance, theatre, literature and arpilleras.
After passing through Barcelona, “Cuerpos gramaticales” is traveling to Guernica in the Basque country during the month of October, and is foreseen to continue its journey through other European cities.
Videos of the “Cuerpos gramaticales” training workshops