Juan Manuel Echavarría (Medellin, 1947), José Alejandro Restrepo (Bogota, 1959), Miguel Ángel Rojas (Bogota, 1946) and Oscar Muñoz (Popayan, 1951) are the descendants of many generations who have experienced different stages of an uninterrupted civil war. While their work cannot be reduced to this common issue, this global creative context must be emphasised.

The exhibition is organised as a succession of four sections, one per artist. This choice of presenting a smaller selection of artists has enabled each one to be given a genuine space and to construct an overall theme conveyed by the comparison of their respective works. The exhibition enables the viewer to understand the works by highlighting their plastic qualities. It also expresses the relationship between the works and photographic imagery, narrative, filmed image and the spoken word. All the four artists have very different artistic practices, they each emphasise the fine boundary between film and photography and deeply question the unstable status of these images.

This comparison results in recurring figures and similar questions. The notion of a distanced witness takes on many different forms in several works which play with the ductility of the image and even its materiality. Here, the memorial function of the image is questioned, disassembled, demonstrated and reactivated in forms that blur the traditional frontiers between the different media. This freedom to reuse and to pass from one form to another, far from being employed simply to demonstrate the photographer's virtuosity, is used rather to develop the thought process surrounding the images.