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Eduardo Arriaga
The article discusses three Colombian visual pieces (two movies and one digital piece) whose main focus is the representation of Afro-Colombian subjects and communities. Based on the idea of visualization as a process that requires an epistemic decolonization, the article argues that the film industry continues to fail in representing Afro-Colombians as complex and diverse subjects. Through the analysis and discussions of films such as Chocó (2012) and La Playa D.C. (2013), the article shows how these movies continue to perpetuate stereotypes about Afro-Colombians by employing images that don’t break a structure of representation based on a colonial and illustrated conception of the world. On the contrary, digital pieces such as Un caso de reparación y humanidades digitales (2015) manages to question the way the nation (based on colonial traditions) has created a matrix of representation that makes Afro-Colombian subjects disappear. At the end, it is that lack of confrontational representation what becomes a way to perpetuate a symbolic violence that defines the way the nation imagines Afro-Colombian subjects and communities
