Juan Manuel Echavarría "Death and the River"
Josee Bienvenu Gallery
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Josée Bienvenu gallery is pleased to present "Death and the River," an exhibition of photographs by Juan Manuel Echavarría. Since 1995, his disturbingly beautiful videos and photographs address the dread and human waste of the endless drug war in Colombia where the army, the guerillas and paramilitaries perpetuate the cycle of violence. In November of 2006, Juan Manuel Echavarría visited a cemetery in Puerto Berrío, on the banks of the Magdalena River in Colombia. Within the cemetery, a particularly colorful mausoleum stands apart from the others. The tombs are marked with the letters NN: Ningún Nombre—No Name. Within each tomb lies a corpse or part of a corpse that the people of Puerto Berrío have rescued from the Magdalena River. Echavarría made multiple journeys documenting the changing tombs. The exhibition offers close-up photographs of the tombs in a rectangular grid arrangement recreating the original structure of the NN mausoleum. Among destruction and death, the NN mausoleum is a record of a unique gesture of humanity.
[Image: Juan Manuel Echavarría "Puerto Berrío Mausoleum, Colombia" (2007) Fujiflex print mounted on Dibond, Plexiglas, 33 x 55 in.]
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from March 06, 2008 to April 05, 2008