“In the Current They Travel…”
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https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.996Keywords:
water, terror, narratives, memoryAbstract
In Colombia, the waters of rivers like the Magdalena have become stages for the exposure of terror and loss. However, in this essay I want to propose an alternative approach to water and its relation to violence. Based on the process of fermentation, both as metaphor and material reality, I suggest the possibility of imagining a form of sensual memory brought about by the interaction with waters that contain residues of terror. For this I rely on a series of ethnographic fragments and photographs of daily life in the town of Nueva Venecia, where water impregnated by the residues of a massacre trickles through spaces, instances and stages of the everyday life. These moments open up the possibilities of understanding this relationship with water and its residues as part of a narrative of memory rather than oblivion.
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