Marmelade
Trinity

Marmelade: Trinity

Marmelade: Trinity is the second version (2024) of Marmelade, a self-destructive installation that invites the public to sit down and taste bread with Colombian jam while a robotic machine systematically destroys mosaic portraits. "Marmelade", and the way it is spread, is a metaphor used by Colombians to speak about corruption within the country's political power.

This version reduces the work to three portraits: a trinity, one persecution in three persons: a judge, a director, a prosecutor. The judge is Jose Leonidas Bustos, one of the Supreme Court magistrates portrayed in the first version. Declared unworthy by the Colombian Senate and sentenced to ten years in prison for the "cartel de la toga" judicial corruption scandal, he today flees justice, exiled in Canada, the country where the artist himself found refuge. The director is Giovanni Álvarez Santoyo, head of the Investigation and Accusation Unit of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) since 2018: in May 2023, the unit charged the artist's father, released in 2016 after nine years as a political prisoner, with persecution as a crime against humanity, a case first built under magistrates since convicted of corruption and one the family has always denounced as fabricated. The prosecutor is Mauricio Aguirre Patiño, of the same unit. For the artist, the persecution did not end: it changed hands.

Produced during a residency at Stereolux, this version was presented at the Scopitone Festival (Nantes, France, 2024), where the three mosaics were destroyed over the six days of the exhibition.

Marmelade is produced anew for every presentation: the installation is available for circulation. Booking inquiries: info (at) almario (dot) ca.