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Laura Quiñonez, Accidentes geo-gráficos, 2016-2020

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Accidentes Geo-gráficos is inspired by a story told by Afrocolombians and shared through generations, one that tells that in times of slavery traditional Afro hairstyles were used by the cimarrones (maroons) as maps to escape to freedom. Guided by the testimony of afro-colombian women, I bring together their traditional hairstyles and the landscapes inhabited by their communities, who are still fighting for their rights. Geographical accidents are the shapes given to the earth surface by millennial collisions. This series uses the term to present the shape of these hairstyles as survivors of a painful colonial past but mostly as a horizon to new landscapes.