Torture of a human being

Henry (El Sueco)

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Henry (El Sueco)

Ex-combatant of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia - AUC. Joined at 18 years old and remained there for 4 years.

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Consciously or unconsciously, it will never leave your mind.

When I started painting them, I felt like, I don’t know, like…like one remembers the person, one remembers the man’s features and everything, and one feels unsettled.

But I imagine the man had a family and also he was a human being, and you feel something, it is always hard for one to remember things, those things, one feels like an emptiness in the heart, I don’t know, something; you can say remorse, right? Remorse.

It is in black and white as if it was a sad memory, like if it was something I wouldn’t like to remember.

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2007

Vinyl paint on MDF

100 x 140 cm

C006 - 0008

Category:

Execution Self-portrait Torture

Armed group:

AUC