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Artwork Description

In this work, Evelyn Tovar revisits a rural Caribbean landscape —the road between Galapa and Barranquilla— to explore how territory is remembered, idealized, and transformed into image. Through an apparently serene composition, the artist constructs a landscape that does not fully belong to the present, but rather to a suspended time between memory and representation. Rendered with metallic leaf on silk for silkscreen, the scene appears as a fragile and luminous image. The use of metal introduces a precious, reflective quality while simultaneously evoking tension between permanence and erosion: what shines is also subject to disappearance. Rural architecture, the road, and the surrounding vegetation emerge as traces—almost spectral—of a landscape that has been historically observed, intervened upon, and displaced. In Tovar’s work, landscape is not presented as documentation or postcard imagery, but as a symbolic construction. The image recalls early visual records of Colombian territory while engaging with narratives that have framed these spaces through lenses of exoticism, progress, or neglect. In this way, the artist offers a critical reflection on how landscapes are fixed, reproduced, and consumed, even as their material realities continue to shift.