Miriam Londoño
  • News Installation 80 cms x 320 cmsPaper2012
  • Corazón Violento 100 cms x 200 cmsPaper - Old Church - Amsterdam - 20102008This work is a reflection of how someone from the rural area of Colombia with a dream to build a bright future, took the wrong path in life due to the lack of any resources. It is the story of a woman called Karina, entering the ranks as a “guerrillera” in the Farc fighting against the government and how she finally escaped from there.
  • Corazón Violento 430 cms x 200 cmsPaper - Old Church - Amsterdam - 20102008This work is a reflection of how someone from the rural area of Colombia with a dream to build a bright future, took the wrong path in life due to the lack of any resources. It is the story of a woman called Karina, entering the ranks as a “guerrillera” in the Farc fighting against the government and how she finally escaped from there.
  • Letter to my Father 85 cms x 125 cmsPaper - Three pieces of 125x85cm -2005These handwritten letters express my desire to connect with the past, with my family and origins.
  • Letter Four 80 cms x 170 cmsPaper2005This series of letters, crafted with handmade paper and based on handwriting, is born of an intense need to communicate in my own language.
  • Blue Letter 160 cms x 125 cmsPaper2005The “Blue Letter” I wrote to my sister who got struck by a small aircraft coming literally out of the blue . She died instantly at the age 33. In this letter I tell her about all the things I would have liked to tell her in person throughout all these years. I used cotton and pigments to pour out my feelings to someone that I will always cherish and never forget.
  • View of Three Letters 80 cms x 150 cmsPaper2006The letters drawn seem to be a cascade of moving words, a constant flow of signs stripped of their precise meaning. It is a way of using calligraphic signs and arabesques to decipher an untranslatable representation: the emptiness of words, when one faces an unknown language, in which the reader can only gather intuitively a mood or a state of mind.
  • Letter-Pedacitos de desespero 70 cms x 80 cmsPaper and Pigments2008Collage made of loose sentences based on a letter written by Ingrid Betancourt during her captivity in the Colombian jungle.The collage represents linguistic chaos: words seem to sink into the gaps existing between them and the shadows projected on the wall, making the texts impossible to read in its totality. This chaos becomes a metaphor of the dimension of the pain of those who unjustly lost their freedom.
  • Letter-Pedacitos de desespero 70 cms x 80 cmsPaper2008Collage made of loose sentences based on a letter written by Ingrid Betancourt during her captivity in the Colombian jungle.The collage represents linguistic chaos: words seem to sink into the gaps existing between them and the shadows projected on the wall, making the texts impossible to read in its totality. This chaos becomes a metaphor of the dimension of the pain of those who unjustly lost their freedom.
  • So that you don't forget me 100 cms x 100 cmsPaper2008Work based on people’s names, which look like autographs. They are the signatures of those men and women who have disappeared in the Colombian jungle, kidnapped by the FARC, victims of a violence who have had their lives cut short.
  • La Noche Oscura 100 cms x 70 cmsPaper2007"The Dark Night" is made out of fragments taken from the poem of the same name written in the 16th century by the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross. I have been fascinated by the beauty of the poem, the rhythmical flow of the words and its meaning. The two paper pages are like an open book, where individual words seem to be trapped in a net, as if the was constrained to reach a higher reality.
  • News 225 cms x 185 cmsPaper and Pigments2007The work "News" is based on daily news items taken from newspapers and the internet, specially articles about the war in Iraq. I was moved not only by the facts, but also by the overwhelming quantity of information that we are bombarded with by the media which often leaves us with a sense of helplessness.
  • Stories of Leiden 450 cms x 170 cmsPaper Calligraphy - Installation with sound2007Six pieces of 50x150cm, Leiden- This works describe the history of a small weaver house from the 16th century in Leiden. It is both a testimony and a tribute to the house’s past and its capability to survive throughout the years. The text indicates the type of house it was, the names of those who lived there and show extracts from an interview that I made with the last two inhabitants of the weaver house.
  • Entangled names 70 cms x 30 cmsPaper and Pigments2008Based on people’s names, which look like autographs.
  • Day Dreaming 70 cms x 60 cmsPaper and Pigments2007A collection of texts based on interviews that I carried out with immigrants from South America living in Europe. What captivated my attention most was the common denominator found in all the life histories: the leaving behind of a country of origin in search of a wonderful dream somewhere else and then confronting the reality of coping with a very different culture and language.
  • You and Me 75 cms x 45 cmsPaper and Pigments2011
  • So, that you always remember me - Detail 100 cms x 200 cmsPaper - Paper Museum of Capellades - Spain-2008Names of 45 hostages. This works is a reflection on the tragedy that hundreds of Colombians live. To name the hostages is somehow remember them, to oppose to the barbarism and terror resulting in the FARC actions.
  • Trapped 200 cms x 200 cmsPaper2008Installation at the Paper Museum in Capellades, Spain- with the names of 120 hostages by the Farc in Colombia-2008-These works are a reflection on the tragedy that hundreds of Colombians live. To name of the hostages is somehow remember them, to oppose to the barbarism and terror resulting in the FARC actions.
  • So, that you always remember me 100 cms x 200 cmsPaper and Pigments2008Installation at the Paper Museum of Capellades with names of 45 hostages- Spain-2008- These works are a reflection on the tragedy that hundreds of Colombians live. To name the hostages is somehow remember them, to oppose to the barbarism and terror resulting in the FARC actions.
  • Testimonies 100 cms x 100 cmsPaper2011Installations model for an open book - 2007-2011
  • Stories 550 cms x 90 cmsPaper2011Installation model for an open book