Erika Diettes
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ArtistColombian, born 1978
CultureColombian
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the series Drifting Away
Date2007–2008
PlaceColombia
MediumPrinted glass
DimensionsFrame: 60 1/2 × 36 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (153.7 × 92.1 × 12.1 cm)
Base: 7 7/8 × 7 × 36 1/8 in. (20 × 17.8 × 91.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Luis and Gemma De Santos, De Santos Gallery, Houston
Object number2009.490
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

“In Drifting Away my intention is to draw
attention to some of the victims of forced disappearances of the Colombian
armed conflict. The project is a response to a number of press reports and news
broadcasts which explain how the paramilitaries and the guerrillas torture
people, mutilate them and make them disappear by throwing their bodies into a
river. This is the source of the saying that the rivers of Colombia are the
world’s largest graveyard,” comments Diettes.

Erika Diettes photographs the possessions of the
disappeared submerged in water to create a visual memorial to each victim. The
reflections in the water both allude to Colombia’s rivers and the surviving
memory of the victims, while the scale and transparency of the work
universalize the pathos of those left to mourn their loved ones.


Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
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