Carlos Motta

Hilos de sangre: historias y memorias del vih/sida en Colombia recovers memories and experiences of hiv and aids, based on conversations with dozens of people who have actively worked on the issue from different fields, from the 1980s to the present and in different regions of the country.

Conceived and created by historian Pablo Bedoya and artist Carlos Motta—in collaboration with David Alejandro Velásquez, Valentina Trujillo, Simonne Montoya González, and Victor Alfonso Esteban Amórtegui—this oral history archive offers an intersectional perspective on hiv and aids in Colombia through a website, which presents a collection of audio conversations and oral histories; a timeline reconstructing some historical trajectories built from these conversations; an archive of documents related to state responses and social mobilization; and an art exhibition that includes works by Colombian artists.

Hilos de sangre: historias y memorias del vih/sida en Colombia examines the hiv/aids pandemic in Colombia, from its emergence to the present day, analyzing the political, social, cultural and subjective transformations it has entailed, the impacts it has produced in different areas and the forms of individual and collective action it gave rise to, as well as the institutional and cultural responses that have occurred in the country.

The project was launched in the context of the exhibition Carlos Motta: Stigmata at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) (March 16-June 11, 2023).

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