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YOU ARE WHAT WE WERE, YOU SHALL BE WHAT WE ARE
Camera Obscura, Silver gelatin print, 50 x 60 cms., 2007


Page from the book: "Art Collection of the Contemporary Art Museum of Bogotá"

Death, as an inherent part of the experience of life is treated in this project as the mystery enclosed not only in death itself but through the image of the mummy: death unfinished, death halfway, faces and bodies with an expression that falls in a middle point between what it was and what is not any more.

These images were taken at the Museum of Mummies in San Bernardo – José Arquímedes Castro Mausoleum, San Bernardo, Cundinamarca, Colombia.


Part of this series belong to the Photography Collection of the Bogota Contemporary Museum of Art.